This website no longer supports Internet Explorer 11. Please use a more up-to-date browser such as Firefox, Chrome for better viewing and usability.

Seraina Schudel

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

  • System comparison
  • Value chains and markets

Projects

Training / professional career

  • Since 2024 Researcher at FiBL Switzerland
  • 2023 (8 months) Junior Professional Officer at the ‘Soils, Food, & Healthy Communities’ organization, Malawi
  • 2022 - 2024 Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Development and Cooperation, ETH Zurich (NADEL)
  • 2019 - 2022 Researcher at Empa, St. Gallen
  • 2018 - 2019 University internship at Agroscope, Wädenswil
  • 2016 - 2018 M.Sc. in Biology, Plant Sciences, University of Zurich

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

  • Bernasconi, Z., Herger, A. G., Del Pilar Caro, M., Kunz, L., Müller, M. C., Stirnemann, U., Outram, M. A., Widrig, V., Neidhart, M., Isaksson, J., Schudel, S., Rösli, S., Wicker, T., Bender, K. W., Zipfel, C., Dodds, P. N., & Figueroa, M. (2026). Virulence on Pm4 kinase-based resistance is determined by two divergent wheat powdery mildew effectors. Nature Plants, 12, 164–178.
  • Bezner Kerr, R., Sanga, F., Schudel, S., & Munthali, M. C. (2024). The potential for agroecology in Malawi: A policy analysis. Biovision Foundation. https://www.biovision.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Infopool_Malawi_Policy_Analysis_Final_Web.pdf
  • Shrivastava, C., Schudel, S., Shoji, K., Onwude, D., da Silva, F. P., Turan, D., Paillart, M., & Defraeye, T. (2023). Digital twins for selecting the optimal ventilated strawberry packaging based on the unique hygrothermal conditions of a shipment from farm to retailer. Postharvest Biology and Technology, 199, 112283. doi.org/10.1016/J.POSTHARVBIO.2023.112283
  • Schudel, S., Shoji, K., Shrivastava, C., Onwude, D., & Defraeye, T. (2023). Solution roadmap to reduce food loss along your postharvest supply chain from farm to retail. Food Packaging and Shelf Life, 36, 101057. doi.org/10.1016/J.FPSL.2023.101057
  • Defraeye, T., Shoji, K., Schudel, S., Onwude, D., & Shrivastava, C. (2023). Passive evaporative coolers for postharvest storage of fruit and vegetables: Where to best deploy them and how well do they perform. Frontiers in Food Science and Technology, 3, 1100181. doi.org/10.3389/FRFST.2023.1100181
  • You, L., Schudel, S., & Defraeye, T. (2023). Developing of biophysical food for monitoring postharvest supply chains for avocado and potato and deploying of biophysical apple. Journal of Food Engineering, 338, 111219. doi.org/10.1016/J.JFOODENG.2022.111219
  • Schudel, S., Shrivastava, C., Rebeaud, S. G., Karafka, L., Shoji, K., Onwude, D., & Defraeye, T. (2022). Combining experiments and mechanistic modeling to compare ventilated packaging types for strawberries from farm to retailer. Food Packaging and Shelf Life, 34, 100944. doi.org/10.1016/J.FPSL.2022.100944
  • Onwude, D., Bahrami, F., Shrivastava, C., Berry, T., Cronje, P., North, J., Kirsten, N., Schudel, S., Crenna, E., Shoji, K., & Defraeye, T. (2022). Physics-driven digital twins to quantify the impact of pre- and postharvest variability on the end quality evolution of orange fruit. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 186, 106585. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.RESCONREC.2022.106585
  • Shoji, K., Schudel, S., Shrivastava, C., Onwude, D., & Defraeye, T. (2022). Optimizing the postharvest supply chain of imported fresh produce with physics-based digital twins. Journal of Food Engineering, 329, 111077. doi.org/10.1016/J.JFOODENG.2022.111077
  • Muller, M. C., Kunz, L., Schudel, S., Lawson, A. W., Kammerecker, S., Isaksson, J., Wyler, M., Graf, J., Sotiropoulos, A. G., Praz, C. R., Manser, B., Wicker, T., Bourras, S., & Keller, B. (2022). Ancient variation of the AvrPm17 gene in powdery mildew limits the effectiveness of the introgressed rye Pm17 resistance gene in wheat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(30), e2108808119. doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.2108808119/SUPPL_FILE/PNAS.2108808119.SD03.XLSX
  • Shrivastava, C., Crenna, E., Schudel, S., Shoji, K., Onwude, D., Hischier, R., & Defraeye, T. (2022). To Wrap Or to Not Wrap Cucumbers? Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6, 750199. doi.org/10.3389/FSUFS.2022.750199/BIBTEX
  • Shrivastava, C., Berry, T., Cronje, P., Schudel, S., & Defraeye, T. (2022). Digital twins enable the quantification of the trade-offs in maintaining citrus quality and marketability in the refrigerated supply chain. Nature Food 2022 3:6, 3(6), 413–427. doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00497-9
  • Onwude, D. I., Iranshahi, K., Rubinetti, D., Schudel, S., Schemminger, J., Martynenko, A., & Defraeye, T. (2022). How much do process parameters affect the residual quality attributes of dried fruits and vegetables for convective drying? Food and Bioproducts Processing, 131, 176–190. doi.org/10.1016/J.FBP.2021.11.005
  • Shoji, K., Schudel, S., Onwude, D., Shrivastava, C., & Defraeye, T. (2022). Mapping the postharvest life of imported fruits from packhouse to retail stores using physics-based digital twins. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 176, 105914. doi.org/10.1016/J.RESCONREC.2021.105914
  • Müller, M. C., Kunz, L., Graf, J., Schudel, S., & Keller, B. (2021). Host Adaptation through Hybridization: Genome Analysis of Triticale Powdery Mildew Reveals Unique Combination of Lineage-Specific Effectors. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 34(12), 1350–1357. https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-05-21-0111-SC/ASSET/IMAGES/LARGE/MPMI-05-21-0111-SCF4.JPEG
  • Schudel, S., Prawiranto, K., & Defraeye, T. (2021). Comparison of freezing and convective dehydrofreezing of vegetables for reducing cell damage. Journal of Food Engineering, 293, 110376. doi.org/10.1016/J.JFOODENG.2020.110376
  • Defraeye, T., Shrivastava, C., Berry, T., Verboven, P., Onwude, D., Schudel, S., Bühlmann, A., Cronje, P., & Rossi, R. M. (2021). Digital twins are coming: Will we need them in supply chains of fresh horticultural produce? Trends in Food Science & Technology, 109, 245–258. doi.org/10.1016/J.TIFS.2021.01.025
  • Hewitt, T., Müller, M. C., Molnár, I., Mascher, M., Holušová, K., Šimková, H., Kunz, L., Zhang, J., Li, J., Bhatt, D., Sharma, R., Schudel, S., Yu, G., Steuernagel, B., Periyannan, S., Wulff, B., Ayliffe, M., McIntosh, R., Keller, B., … Zhang, P. (2021). A highly differentiated region of wheat chromosome 7AL encodes a Pm1a immune receptor that recognizes its corresponding AvrPm1a effector from Blumeria graminis. New Phytologist, 229(5), 2812–2826. doi.org/10.1111/NPH.17075
  • Defraeye, T., Tagliavini, G., Wu, W., Prawiranto, K., Schudel, S., Assefa Kerisima, M., Verboven, P., & Bühlmann, A. (2019). Digital twins probe into food cooling and biochemical quality changes for reducing losses in refrigerated supply chains. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 149, 778–794. doi.org/10.1016/J.RESCONREC.2019.06.002
  • Müller, M. C., Praz, C. R., Sotiropoulos, A. G., Menardo, F., Kunz, L., Schudel, S., Oberhänsli, S., Poretti, M., Wehrli, A., Bourras, S., Keller, B., & Wicker, T. (2019). A chromosome-scale genome assembly reveals a highly dynamic effector repertoire of wheat powdery mildew. New Phytologist, 221(4), 2176–2189. doi.org/10.1111/NPH.15529