{"id":84653,"date":"2017-03-14T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irta.cat\/personal\/josep-usall-i-rodie\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:12:56","slug":"josep-usall-i-rodie","status":"publish","type":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.irta.cat\/es\/personal\/josep-usall-i-rodie\/","title":{"rendered":"Josep Usall i Rodi\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":83186,"parent":0,"template":"","tipus_de_treballador":[10947],"class_list":["post-84653","personal","type-personal","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipus_de_treballador-personal-responsable-es"],"acf":{"nom_complet":"Usall i Rodi\u00e9, Josep","codi_empleat":"2101","codi_departament":"Z1","centre":"30","carrec":"Director general del IRTA","lloc_tipus":"","correu_electronic":"direccio.general@irta.cat","telefon":"","extensio":"","telefon_mobil":"","data_inici":"19920316","data_fi":"99990909","informacio_professional":"<strong>Josep Usall y Rodi\u00e9<\/strong> (Alguaire, 1966) es el director general del Instituto de Investigaci\u00f3n y Tecnolog\u00eda Agroalimentarias (IRTA) desde 2018. Es ingeniero t\u00e9cnico agr\u00edcola (Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Catalu\u00f1a, UPC, 1984-1987), ingeniero agr\u00f3nomo (9) internacional (c\u00e1mara de comercio de Terrassa 1991-92) y doctor ingeniero agr\u00f3nomo por la Universidad de Lleida (1995).\r\n\r\nVinculado desde 1992 al IRTA como investigador en patolog\u00edas de la postcosecha, ha ejercido varios cargos de gesti\u00f3n: fue el coordinador del programa Protecci\u00f3n Vegetal Sostenible (2009-2012), director del Servicio t\u00e9cnico de postcosecha (2002-2018), jefe del programa de Postcosecha (18) general. Adem\u00e1s, entre 2011 y 2018 coordin\u00f3 el programa Fruit.Net, que tiene el objetivo de optimizar la aplicaci\u00f3n de productos fitosanitarios y la reducci\u00f3n del derroche de la fruta en Catalu\u00f1a.\r\n\r\nEntre 1994 y 2011 compagin\u00f3 su actividad investigadora con la direcci\u00f3n del Centro de Cooperaci\u00f3n Internacional de la Universidad de Lleida (UdL).\r\n\r\nSu investigaci\u00f3n se inici\u00f3 con el desarrollo de agentes de control biol\u00f3gico para las principales enfermedades de las frutas de pepita. M\u00e1s adelante, ampli\u00f3 el alcance de su investigaci\u00f3n incluyendo otras estrategias de control como tratamientos f\u00edsicos o qu\u00edmicos de bajo riesgo. En los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, su investigaci\u00f3n se ha focalizado en desarrollar modelos epidemiol\u00f3gicos de las principales enfermedades de la fruta, en especial la <em>Monilia<\/em> en fruta de hueso, as\u00ed como estudios de patog\u00e9nesis y resistencia de <em>Penicillium<\/em> y <em>Monilia <\/em>basados \u200b\u200ben la gen\u00f3mica.\r\n\r\nHa publicado cerca de 200 art\u00edculos cient\u00edficos en revistas indexadas, ha escrito doce cap\u00edtulos de libro y unos setenta art\u00edculos divulgativos, ha colaborado en la edici\u00f3n de diez libros, tiene tres patentes y ha pronunciado m\u00e1s de 150 comunicaciones en congresos nacionales e internacionales. Ha sido el director del Curso Internacional de Poscosecha del IRTA.\r\n\r\nHa realizado estancias de investigaci\u00f3n en el Appalachian Fruit Research Station (ARS-USDA, EE.UU.), en el Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory (ARS-USDA, EE.UU.), en la Universidade do Algarve (Portugal), en el Ruakura Research Center (HortResearch \u2013 Nueva Zelanda) y en la University of California-Davis.","curriculum_vitae":null,"linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/josep-usall-76892859\/","twitter":"","recerca":"","researchgate":"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Josep-Usall","categoria":"","lastupdate":null,"dni":"B1ao\/cJs33eylEfritcUwQ==","imarina":{"id_personal":"280745","id_entity":"5005","entity_parent":"700494","research_id":"","researchgate_id":"","academiaedu_id":"","publons":"","orcid":"0000-0002-0856-3508","author_id":"7004323811","googlescholar_id":"","dialnet_id":"331429"}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Josep Usall i Rodi\u00e9 &#187; 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