S. Bimonte personal homepage
| Sandro Bimonte is Senior Researcher at French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) (France), and more exactly he is a member of the TSCF laboratory. He received his PhD from INSA-Lyon, France (2004–2007). He has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals and international conferences. His research activities concern spatial data warehouses and spatial OLAP, visual languages, geographic information systems, spatio-temporal databases, geovisualization, Big Data, IoT and Robotics data management. He joined and coordinated several research projects (such as VGI4bio.fr, BEYOND, Ninsar, etc.) on the above areas. All research activities and project management are at the intersection of computer science and smart sustainable agriculture. This interdisciplinary approach characterizing his work is well adapted to GreenFieldData. Sandro Bimonte has several international collaborations (also with some partners of GreenFieldData) implemented by student mobilities, double PhDs, and international co-authoring publications. Moreover, He worked with some national IT companies such as Geosystems France, CGI, Agaetis, etc. Sandro Bimonte's works are fully compliant with the triple “i” (international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary) approach required by the MSCA DN-JN program |
G. Charrier Personal homepage
| Guillaume Charrier, ecophysiologist (51 publications), studies the adaptation of woody plants to harsh environmental conditions and induced damages at the hydraulic and cellular levels. He focuses on winter biology and co-leads the working group on dormancy in the Tempo network and the network of phenological survey DIVAE with B. Wenden. He was PI and WP leader in various project (Pack Ambition Recherche Doux-Glace, ANR Acoufollow, ANR Declic, Life Frostdefend). His research combines in situ measurements in stressing environments, experimental treatments in controlled conditions and ecophysiological modelling that can account for the interaction between different stressing events. |
R. Lenain Personal homepage
| Roland Lenain is Senior Researcher at INRAE (France), and leads the Research Unit TSCF (Technology and information Support for AgroSystem). He is a mechatronics engineer, graduated from Sigma Clermont in 2002. He obtained his Ph.D. in robotics in 2005 from the University of Clermont-Auvergne. He joined INRAE in 2006 as a researcher within the Robotics and Mobility for the Environment and Agriculture (Romea) team. His research focuses on advanced control of mobile robots in off-road contexts, integrating precision and integrity aspects, with various perceptual and functional modalities. This work has led him to publish more than 100 scientific articles on the subject. He coordinates several large-scale national and international projects, including those funded by the ANR (French National Research Agency). His expertise in the field of agricultural robotics research, recognized by the Francis Sevilla Award (2017) and the Sedimaster Award (2018), has led him to engage in many research-related activities (including leading a working group within the GdR Robotics from 2014 to 2020) and to contribute his expertise (notably as a member of the "Robotics and Interaction" expert committee of the ANR in 2021). Such activities have also led him to actively participate in the creation of the RobAgri association, where he is chairing the Scientific and Technical Council. |
P. Skrzypczyński
| Piotr Skrzypczyński obtained his doctoral and postdoctoral degrees in robotics in 1997 and 2007, respectively. Since 2020 he is full professor and Head of the Division of Robotics at the Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Poznan University of Technology (PUT). He has been appointed as the deputy leader at the PUT's Interdisciplinary Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. He has been a leader or principal investigator in research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Centre, the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR), co-PI in EC projects, and a research mentor in five national research grants for young scientists. Currently, he is head of the Steering Committee of the nation-wide NCBR INFOSTRATEG programme. His research interests and expertise are in autonomous navigation, SLAM, perception, and machine learning in robotics and IoT systems. |
C.G. Sørensen Personal homepage
| Professor Claus Grøn Sørensen is Head of the Research Unit in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark. Key research areas include production and operations management, digitalization, decision analysis, information modeling, system analysis, simulation and modeling of technology applications in agriculture. He has participated as project coordinator, WP leader, and partner coordinator in multiple international projects (like Internet of Food and Farms 2020, SmartAgri) including authoring, senior authoring and co-authoring of 400+ national and international publications. He is the past President of EurAgEng (European Society of Agricultural Engineers), Currently serving in the executive committee of EurAgEng and serving as incoming President of CIGR (International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering). He also serves as a full member of the Club of Bologna and is an iABBE fellow: International Academy of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. |
R. Wrembel Personal homepage
| Robert Wrembel is an assoc. prof. in the Faculty of Computing and TeleCommunication s, at Poznan University of Technology (PUT) in Poland, the chair of the Data Processing Technologies group at Poznan University of Technology, the leader of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, and the member of the Committee on Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was granted the IBM Faculty Award, IBM Shared University Research Award, the Medal of the Committee of National Education (from the Minister of National Education), the Silver Medal for Long-lasting Service (from the President of the Republic of Poland), and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Service Award. He is a senior ACM member, a country representative in the IFIP Technical Committee TC2, and a chair the of the IFIP Working Group 2.6. Webpage: http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/rwrembel/ |
D. Sacharidis Personal homepage
| Dimitris Sacharidis is an assistant professor at the Data Science and Engineering Lab of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Prior to that he was an assistant professor at the Technical University of Vienna, and a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at the "Athena" Research Center and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He finished his PhD and undergraduate studies on Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, while in between he obtained an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. His research interests include data science, data engineering, and responsible AI. He has served as a PC member and has been involved in the organization of top related conferences, and has acted as a reviewer and editorial member of associated journals. |
G. Vargas-Solar Personal homepage
| Genoveva Vargas-Solar is a principal scientist at the French CNRS, attached to the LIRIS Lab in Lyon. With a multidisciplinary background in Latin American literature and computer science, she holds two PhDs in both fields and an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the University of Grenoble. Her research focuses on designing service-based database management systems guided by Service Level Objectives (SLO) for decentralized data centers. An advocate for data and AI decolonization and gender equality, she leads diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across various international database conferences and coordinates multiple research projects in Europe and Latin America. She is a member of the steering committees of major conferences like SIGMOD, EDBT, and ADBIS. |
R. Oberti Personal homepage
| Roberto Oberti is associate professor in agricultural engineering at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, where he lectures on classical agricultural mechanization and on automation of farm processes. His primary research focuses on the development and application of sensing, automation, and robotic systems in crop management operations and precision agriculture. He has a specific interest in the intelligent and optimised delivery of precision treatments with protection compounds, nutrients, and biostimulant products to plants. He has contributed to numerous international and national projects in agricultural automation and precision agriculture and has authored or co-authored 50+ journal articles and peer-reviewed proceedings, and 10 book chapters. He chairs the MSc program in Sustainable Agriculture at the UniMI, serves on the editorial board of Precision Agriculture, and is a member of the Club of Bologna’s Management Committee. |
F. Mariniello Personal homepage
| Francesco Marinello is a full professor in biosystems engineering at Università degli Studi di Padova. After his PhD in precision engineering and metrology jointly supervised by the Technical University of Denmark (Lingby, Denmark), he spent two years at the InterUniversity Center for Nanotechnologies (Venice, Italy) and one year at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (Lugano, Switzerland). Since 2012 he is researcher and since 2024 full professor at the University of Padova (Padova, Italy) and since 2017 Adjunct professor at the University of Georgia (Athens, USA): he is responsible for the courses in Agricultural Mechanics, Precision Farming, Applied Statistics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Agriculture. He is editor in chief for the journal Computers and Electronics in Agriculture and for the section Digital Agriculture in Agriculture journal. |
A. Cogato Personal homepage
| Alessia Cogato is a Researcher in biosystems engineering at Università degli Studi di Padova. After her PhD in agricultural engineering jointly supervised by the University of Adelaide (Australia), she spent one year at the University of Udine (Udine, Italy) working in precision viticulture. Since 2025 she has been a researcher at the University of Padova (Padova, Italy). Her research activities focus on smart data applications for precision agriculture. She has been guest editor for three special issues, she is currently editorial board member of Smart Agricultural Technology and board member of the Metroagrifor conference. |
H. Sheridan Personal homepage
| Helen Sheridan is an Associate Professor in Agricultural Ecology and Agri-Environmental Policy with the School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin. She initiated and led the UCD research programme in multispecies swards over the last decade, being the PI of the DAFM-funded "SmartGrass" and "SmartSward" The findings of these projects directly led to the establishment of the globally unique Long Term Grazing Platform at UCD Lyons Farm - a participant site in the Global Farm Platform (https://globalfarmplatform.org). She is also UCD lead on the 2022 DAFM funded 'MultiMore' project and a collaborating researcher on the DAFM funded 'FaSTEN' project. She was also a collaborating researcher, leading the sward research on the EU Marie Curie Training NETWORK H2020 HeartLand Project. In each of these projects, her team has focused on enhancing our knowledge and understanding of multispecies swards to enhance productivity while also protecting the environment and climate. She has published 54 papers and has supervised 15 research graduate students to completion. |
J. Meersmans Personal homepage
| Jeroen Meersmans is an Associated Professor in Environmental Risk Analysis within the Water-Soil-Plant research unit of the University of Liège’s prestigious Gembloux AgroBio Tech faculty. His main research focus is on modelling and mapping the spatial and temporal variability of soil organic carbon (SOC) across a wide range of scales (plot - field - national). In addition, he has been assessing vegetation - soil type interactions in order to obtain a deeper understanding of a wider range of soil health indicators (with a particular focus on chemical and physical indicators) and how these may affect the delivery of multiple ecosystem services. As such, the usage of digital soil data and related covariates (including remote sensing derived) has been a key element in Jeroen’s research activities to cover large geographical entities. Jeroen has worked for 10 years at top-research institutes abroad (i.e. INRA, Exeter University and Cranfield University) through which he obtained a strongly developed international network. He obtained an Intra-European Marie Curie PostDoc position (2010-2011) and got later-on involved as PI or WP-leader in multiple international projects across the globe (e.g. China, Cameroon, India and Canada). An efficient organization, high quality standards and flexibility resulted in excellent output, including publications in high impact factor journals, such as “Global Change Biology”, “PNAS” and “Nature Communications”. |
M. Sakr Personal homepage
| Mahmoud Sakr is associate professor at the Brussels school of Engineering in the Free University of Brussels (English for Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB). His main research scope is mobility data science. He is a main contributor and a co-founder of the MobilityDB MOD, an OSGeo community project that extends PostgreSQL and PostGIS with temporal and spatiotemporal data types. He is also a main contributor and co-chair of the Moving Feature Standards Working Group MF-SWG of the Open Geospatial Consortium OGC. He contributed as initial convener in amending the MF-SWG charter to cover these topics. He participates in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master programme on Big Data Management and Analytics BDMA, and in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN-European Joint Doctoral programme on Data Engineering for Data Science DEDS. He has served as general chair of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2024. He holds a PhD (dr.rer.nat) from the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. Beside the academic activities, he is actively participating and giving talks in open source community conferences including FOSS4G, PGConf, and FOSDEM. |
J. Bindelle Personal homepage
| Jerome Bindelle has built a career focused on creating sustainable, ethical, and fair food systems, particularly through re-integrating livestock and crop systems in agroecology. With a background in animal nutrition and grazing management, Inspired by inter-individual feeding variation among cows, JB focused on plant-animal interactions as a source of innovation in grazing systems. This led to establishing a “precision grazing” research group, which utilized sensor technology, GPS, and remote sensing to develop tools for tracking individual grazing behaviors and linking them to methane emissions. The work of JB expanded to include high-resolution vegetation mapping, becoming a licensed drone pilot to maximize remote sensing for pasture analysis. He applied his findings in teaching, developing a “smart farming” course module that introduces students to modern, site-specific farming methods. A sabbatical in Brazil deepened their understanding of diverse grassland systems, working on projects assessing the impact of vegetation structure on grazing behavior and collaborating with the SIPA Alliance on long-term crop-livestock farming experiments. In Belgium, JB co-designed a novel sustainable food systems experiment, ECOFOODSYSTEM, and now contributes to the Walloon Council for Sustainable Food Systems, aligning their research with regional sustainability goals. JB is also a member of the EU AGROECOLOGY partnership |
J. Martins Personal homepage
| Jorge Martins is Associate Professor at IST - Instituto Superior Técnico and Integrated Member at IDMEC - Institute of Mechanical Engineering. Currently he is Co-Coordinator of the Scientific Area of Control Automation and Industrial Informatics of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research origins are in Medical Robotics, and he founded and directs the Human Robotics Lab at IST. Recently, he embraced the One Health approach, and the Human Robotics lab extends people and environmental health, aiming to elevate the precision level in Precision Agriculture bridging technologies from medical/surgical robotics. He has led several research projects funded by nacional (FCT), european (FP7 and H2020), and private industry funds. Most recently he is PI of project Robotics4Farmers (https://robotics4farmers.tecnico.ulisboa.pt), a national collaborative project with producers of olive, almonds and vineyards, which created the EVAbot robotic system, implements for laser and LED based weeding (blue 450nm wavelength), and AI systems for detection and classification of specific weeds. These systems will be used by DC B and F in their respective plots. |
C. Picon-Cochard
| Catherine Picon-Cochard is a research director at INRAE Clermont-Ferrand working in a grassland ecosystem research Unit. She leads this Unit. She has a strong experience on impacts of climate change and management practices on main properties of grassland, as well as its functioning (leaf gas exchange, morphological traits above and belowground) as well as its microclimate monitoring (light, temperature, precipitation, soil temperature and humidity). Along her research career she has made a lot of experiments both in the field and controlled conditions to assess how plants and agroecosystems respond to global change (management and climate change). She has skills on microclimate and main properties of agroecosystems monitoring above (radiation, temperature, precipitation) and belowground (soil temperature and humidity). The skills also concern protocol setup of the experiments to study global change effects. Regarding bibliographic point of view, I have made meta-analyses on impacts of climate change on forage quality and species richness, as well as effect of practice (mowing) on species richness. She has supervised 6 PhD students and participated in 11 European projects and several national projects dealing with global change effects on grasslands and trees. |
F. Ravat Personal homepage
| Franck Ravat, is a Full Professor in Computer Science, senior scientist of the research group at UniTOU and member of the IRIT-SIG research group. His research interest is decision support systems with novel multistore architectures including big data and data lakes. His research also focusses on data lake meta data management and governance, as well as noSQL with graph systems. With over 100 publications, he has extensive experience in multi-disciplinary projects (ERDF Funding, French National Agency) and PhD thesis supervision (more than 15) |
T. Kechadi Personal homepage
| Tahar Kechadi is a Full Professor of Data Science (DS) at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin. He is a Principal Investigator (PI) at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, a PI at the Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, and a PI of many large projects in eHealth, cybersecurity, and digital agriculture. He is a DS specialist with extensive experience in machine learning associated with the characteristics of the datasets. He has a strong background in how to manage and analyse data quickly and efficiently. He has contributed to numerous large-scale DS projects, ranging from multimodal data in healthcare to NLP models for fake news detection and digital agriculture. In digital agriculture, he investigated the use of data analytics to optimise crop farming operations and crop yields at a large scale within a collaborative research partnership between UCD and Origin Enterprises PLC that is supported by SFI (PI in CONSUS - Crop Optimisation through Sensing, Understanding & Visualisation). This has led to the development of many software licences and patents in this area, for which Origin Enterprise is the primary beneficiary. |
G. Chalhoub Personal homepage
| Gerard Chalhoub is a full professor in computer science at Université Clermont Auvergne. He has received a PhD degree in computer science from the University of Blaise Pascal of France in 2009 and a Habilitation degree (HDR) in Networking and TeleCommunications from the University of Auvergne of France in 2016. He is part of LIMOS-CNRS research laboratory where he is co-head of the Communication and Information Systems axis. He works on performance enhancement, resiliency and security in wireless networks. He has more than 80 publications in conferences and journals related to these topics. |
