Dr. Nadia Sabeh leads Guttmann & Blaevoet’s AiCE Team (Agriculture in Controlled Environments). She has nearly 20 years of experience researching and designing climate control systems for greenhouse vegetable production, commercial mushroom cultivation, and indoor cannabis grows. Dr. Sabeh has presented at international conferences on controlled environment agriculture (CEA) and wrote the book Tomato Greenhouse Roadmap (HortAmericas, 2014) as well as contributed two chapters to the book Plant Factory (Academic Press, 2016), including "Rooftop Plant Production Systems in Urban Areas" and "Physical Environmental Factors and Their Properties." Nadia received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, her M.S. in Agricultural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, and her B.S. from The University of California at Davis, where she regularly advises students.
What’s Always on My Mind: How to feed the world. I want to design an indoor crop production facility that becomes the model for local, sustainable food production.
Fun Fact: I was voted “Best Laugh” my senior year of high school. In my softball days, I could pitch a 60 mph fastball. I love insects; lacewings are my favorite.
Mantra: As long as you keep your eyes on the prize, on your dream, everything you do, every experience that you have, every skill that you learn, will help you to achieve that dream. Haste makes waste; but timing is everything.
People don’t know that... In 2005, I lived in Japan, where I conducted research in the world’s largest agriculture-based wind tunnel. I studied the airflow dynamics of naturally ventilated greenhouses using a 1/19th scale model of my Arizona greenhouse, green lasers, and lots of oil-based smoke. I love the Japanese culture, food, and work ethic, and I can’t wait to go back!
