BIODATA

Birth :       November 9, 1950, Bangkok, Thailand

Education :

1969-1973 B.Sc (Agriculture) Second Class Honor, Entomology, Kasetsart University

1974-1977 M.Sc (Agriculture), Entomology, Kasetsart University

1980-1984 Ph.D (Entomology), Mississippi State University, USA. Under   Anandamahidol Foundation (Agricultural Division) Fellowship

Present Position :Senior advisor for Sugavia Co., Ltd. The first company in Thailand that producing Steviosides from stevia plant.

Working Experiences and Academic Position:

1973-1986   Lecture, Department of Entomology,

                Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University

1992-2004    Professor, Department of Entomology,

      Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University

2004-present Professor C11, Department of Entomology,

   Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University

Publications:

          Over 100 publications in international journals dealing with taxonomy, morphology, plant extracts for natural products  and biological control of insects and mites infesting agricultural plants.

Research achievements

Professor Dr. Angsumarn Chandrapatra is the distinguished expert in every field of phytophagous mite including taxonomy, morphology, ecology and the control. While studying in such area at the Department of Entomology, Mississippi State University, USA, Professor Dr. Angsumarn Chandrapatra had a chance to train in taxonomy of eriophyoid mites under Professor Dr. Jan Boczek, one of the world experts in the fourlegged mite or eriophyoids. In addition, she was also trained in taxonomy of various groups of phytophagous mite at the Acarology Laboratory, Ohio State University, the collection center where mites and ticks all over the world have been collected, preserved and classified. 

Upon graduation and settling at the Department of Entomology, Kasetsart University, Professor Dr. Angsumarn Chandrapatra immediately started working on research project concerning biology, ecology and the control of Phyllocoptruta oleivora (Ashmead), the major pest of citrus family especially orange, lemon, pamelo. In each year, it has cost the farmer a fortune in an attempt to control this pest using the chemicals which affect the consumers in the long run as well as contaminating the environments. The result found the fungi, Hirsutella thompsonii Fisher, the natural enemy of P. Oleivora to cause mortality to a large number of mite. From this discovery, Professor Dr. Angsumarn Chandrapatra had come up with the idea