Research grants
Current key projects
My research has received funding from major European, national agencies, and international donors. Below is a list of the major grants I have been involved.
LARGE
Explore the potential of Large Language Models for FAO knowledge products
FSI
From data to intelligence - a collaborative knowledge system for food and nutritional security
LTER-LIFE
A research infrastructure for digital twins of ecosystems in a changing world
PHENET
Simulation intelligence for extended plant phenotyping and envirotyping
AgrifoodTEF
Testing and experimentation facility for artificial intelligence in agriculture and food
Smart Droplets
AI, data and robotic technologies for pesticide and fertilizer application reduction
D3-C2
Data-driven discoveries in a changing climate
GREAT
Green Deal Data Space Alignment
Digital Future Farm
A digital twin of arable and dairy farms
Cybele
Scalable big data analytics for fostering precision agriculture and livestock farming
Dragon
Data-driven precision agriculture services and skill acquisition
Breed4Food
Big data lakes for animal breeding experimentation
Infra-Demos
Infrastructural gap and social resilience, 2017-2022
IoF2020
Internet of food and farm, 2017-2020
Information resilience
Information resilience in food supply chains
Big data for cow disease prediction
Big data techniques for prediction of diseases in dairy cows
MODEXTREME
Modelling vegetation response to extreme events
ALPINE
A low-power intelligent, sensor network architecture for environmental management
AgMIP East Africa
Agricultural model improvement and intercomparison project - East Africa
ATLAS
Advanced tourism planning system, 2010-2013
AITOLOS
Cross-border collaboration to fight illegal logging and timber trade
ARIES
Artificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services, 2007-
VOA3R
Virtual open-access agriculture and aquaculture repositories
SPICE
Space internetworking center
TaToo
Tagging tool based on a semantic discovery framework
TraceMyWorld
Web 2.0 technologies for collection, analysis and presentation of GPS data
Reinforcement Learning
Theory and practice of reinforcement learning
AMMNET
Data mining for quality assurance in environmental monitoring
SEAMLESS
System for environmental and agricultural modeling - Linking European science and society
NOSTRUM
Network on governance, science and technology for sustainable water resource management in the Mediterranean
Agent Academy
A data-mining framework for training intelligent agents