Lise Korsten

Lise Korsten is a professor at the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Pretoria. She is also the Co-Director of the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence Food Security. An expert in food safety and regulatory control, Professor Lise Korsten developed South Africa's biological control agent for fruit and established a research group in sanitary and phytosanitary aspects of international trade. She is a chief editor of Crop protection and chairs the International Society for Plant Pathology Task Force on Global Food Security. Her research focuses on complementary fields of post-harvest technology and food safety as related to international trade in fresh produce requirements and includes aspects related to post-harvest pathology and food safety in the fresh produce supply chain.