Editorial Board for section 'Agricultural Technology'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Council for Research in Agriculture and the analysis of the agricultural economy (CREA), Research Centre for Engineering and Agro-Food Processing, Via della Pascolare, 16, 00015 Monterotondo (RM), Italy
Interests: biomass availability assessment; bioenergy chain development; agricultural mechanization; biomass logistics and storage; industrial and energy crops; biomass and byproducts; circular bioeconomy; engineering for energy and environment

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Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 15, 00015 Monterotondo, Italy
Interests: harvesting logistics; energy crops; crop by-products; agroforestry; agricultural engineering
1. School of Science and Technology (ECT-UTAD), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
2. Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS), Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC-TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: modelling; control applied to industrial and agroforestry processes; automation
Department of Automatica, Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Caixa Postal 3037, CEP 37200-900 Lavras, MG, Brazil
Interests: optical metrology; biospeckle laser; agricultural engineering; sensors; image analysis
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Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment, and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Interests: agricultural engineering; food science; environmental sustainability; Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA); waste management; wheat and bakery product; dough rheology; ancients wheats; food processing equipment; food processing and engineering; Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO); cereal technology; usability engineering; process and product innovations; insects as food; agricultural mechanization
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Departamento de Ingeniería Rural, Construcciones Civiles y Proyectos de Ingeniería, Área de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Universidad de Córdoba Edificio Leonardo da Vinci, 1ª planta Despacho LV2P170, Campus de Rabanales, Ctra. N-IV, km 396, 14014 Córdoba, Spain
Interests: agricultural machinery; olive growing; harvesting equipment; spraying equipment; agricultural soil management; olive irrigation

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Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), strada delle Cacce 73, 10135 Torino, Italy
Interests: agriculture; innovation; sustainability; soil management; natural resources; occupational safety and health; ergonomics
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College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: agricultural equipment; precision planting; grain harvest equipment; Intelligent agricultural machinery equipment; discrete element simulation; optimal design of the farm equipment
Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: robotics; automation; sensor fusion; perception
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Department of Production Management and Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: agrobots; biomaterials; biosensors; deep learning; food and feed production lines; food, sensors; hydraulic driving; circular economy; control systems
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UniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia
Interests: agricultural mechanisation; tillage and seeding (DEM and FEA studies); spraying (CFD studies); harvesting (cutting, threshing and sizing using DEM and CFD); post harvest processing (cleaning, threshing, sizing and sorting - DEM studies, grain storage, moisture measurement and control); processing of dried grapes, almonds and olives

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Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China
Interests: agricultural machinery; straw retention; no-tillage planting; combine harvesting; experiment design; discrete element method
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College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Interests: agricultural engineering; soil tillage equipment; straw cover; seeding equipment
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Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University 468-1 Aramaki Aza-Aoba, Aoba, Sendai 980-8572, Japan
Interests: farmers’ field productivity; crop production constraints; crop production system; simulation model; remote sensing
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College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Interests: intelligent agricultural equipment; processing and storage of agricultural product; radio frequency treatment

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College of Agricultural Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: seed machine; trancplanting machine and intelligence

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1. School of Agricultural Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
2. Key Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Equipment and Technology (Jiangsu University), Ministry of Education, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: agrometeorology; irrigation; frost protection; abiotic stress; harvesting technology; tea plucking; robotics; environment control; weather modification
Dr. Zhi Huang
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College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Interests: heat and mass transport; physical food processing; porous media; multi-field coupling numerical analysis; pasteurization; food nutrition; food safety

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School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: picking robot; robotic manipulator; machine vision
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Department of Agricultural Structure Environment Engineering, College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: livestock environmental engineering; indoor environment and ventilation; precise ventilation of livestock houses; CFD; environmental control system and strategy
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Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
Interests: quality and safety assessment of agricultural products; development of agricultural product grading systems; computer vision and machine learning; hyperspectral and multispectral imaging; near infrared spectroscopy analysis and modeling
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College of Electronic Engineering (College of Artificial Intelligence), South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Interests: intelligent orchard machinery; mountainous orchard management; plant protection machinery; Internet of Things; fruit tree modern cultivation techniques
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1. Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI), Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, 5300-252 Bragança, Portugal
2. Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS), Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC-TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: mobile robot localization; collaborative robots; IoT; path planning; simulation
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College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Interests: conservation agriculture; (intelligent) agricultural machinery equipment
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), Section of Mechanics and Mechanization, University of Catania, via Santa Sofia, 100, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: agricultural machines; safety in agriculture (noise and vibrations both in field and food-industry plants); pesticide applications (nozzle, sprayers, distribution uniformity, spray drift, worker exposure); mechanical distribution of natural enemies; post-harvest (packing lines, mechanical fruit damage); sustainable agriculture (anaerobic digestion plants, biomasses, digestate spreading, erosion, sod-seeding)
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Laboratory of Farm Structures, Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece
Interests: livestock housing; environmental control in animal facilities; thermal physiology; energy use in livestock housing; precision livestock farming

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Fondazione Edmund Mach, Unità chimica vitienologica e agroalimentare, Dipartimento Sperimentazione e servizi tecnologici, Centro Trasferimento Tecnologico, 38098 San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy
Interests: stable isotope analysis; traceability; authentication; mass spectrometry; method development
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