A. Susana Goggi, PhD

A. Susana Goggi is a Professor of Agronomy at Iowa State University. Her seed physiology research and teaching program addresses major seed quality issues confronting the seed industry in Iowa and globally. She also collaborates with the seed industry on shorter-term research projects to address current seed challenges with immediate practical application. Goggi provides seed physiology advice to the seed industry through direct consultations, on-site training of personnel at seed industry education conferences, and by participating in Seed Science Center-sponsored workshops. She is a scholar with more than 100 publications and ~65 invited research presentations at professional meetings worldwide, and has secured more than 12.5M in funding to support her research program. She has chaired the Iowa Seed Association Scholarship Committee since 2014.

Dr. Goggi has trained/is training 35 M.S. and 8 Ph.D. students, mentored research of 13 undergraduates, and has taught seed physiology and seed science to hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students in class. Demand for her very popular undergraduate course, Seed Science and Technology, always exceeds class capacity. This course explores issues specific to the seed industry and prepares the students for jobs in the seed industry, from research and production to sales. She opened her graduate course in Seed Physiology and the Environment to non-credit students in answer to a request from colleagues in the seed industry interested in her class.

Professor Goggi earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in Agronomy and Seed Science at Mississippi State University’s famous seed science and technology program. She has received a number of awards, including:

• Honorary Membership, Iowa Seed Association, 2019.
• Fellow, Crop Science Society of America, 2016.
• Seed Science Award, Crop Science Society of America, 2013.
• Editor’s Citation of Excellence for Associate Editors, Crop Science, 2014.
• Member, Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society of Agriculture, 2005.