Welcome!

I am a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Wageningen University and Research, in the Netherlands. On my website you may find about my research team, grants, teaching and publications. Check also the new community-driven, open-access journal Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling!

News!

• New position! Looking for an enthousiastic PhD student to work together on hybrid artificial intelligence for food security applications! Applications welcome by January 7th.

• New position! Looking for a highily motivated postdoctoral researcher to work together a multidisciplinary research project on machine learning methods to enable data-driven decisions at a farm level, from yield prediction to fertilizer optimization. Applications by November 25, 2021!

• WUR presented in Brussels the 2021 Mansholt Lecture: Pathways towards digital transformation of food systems. The lecture and the discussion was recorded, and the booklet available for download. It was an honour to be on the writting team!

• I was interviewed by Food Bank News on what does blockchain has to do with food banking.

Agenda

I am involved in (the organization of) the following events:

• Primary Representative, Open Modeling Foundation - Organizational Meeting, Dec. 6-7, 2021, Washington, DC, USA.

• Panelist, ACOS 2021 (Applied Computational Sciences conference 2021), Nov. 3, 2021, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

• Panelist, (Data collection and Artificial Intelligence Workshop), FIRA 2021 (World Agricultural Robotics Forum), Dec. 7, 2021, Montpelier, France, and Online.

• Scientific Committee Member, iEMSs 2022 (11th International Environmental Modelling and Software Society Conference, Modelling for Environmental Sustainability), July 3-8, 2022, Brussels, Belgium.

• Programme Committee Member, Enviroinfo 2021 (35th International Environmental Informatics Conference), Sept. 27-29, 2021, Berlin, Germany.

• Session organizer, ML and DL in environmental management and protection, ICEI 2020+1 (International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ICEI)), Nov 9-13, 2021, Kerala, India.

• Programme Committee Member, Machine Learning Advances Environmental Science Workshop (MAES@ICPR2020), Jan. 10-15, 2021, Milan, Italy.

• Keynote speaker, Participatory and Cross-Scale Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems, Oct. 12-16, 2020, Lorentz Center@Snellius.

• co-Chair of the Programme Committee, Enviroinfo 2020 (34th International Environmental Informatics Conference, Digital Twins for Sustainability), Sept. 23-25, 2020 (postponed to March 2021 due to COVID-19), Nicosia, Cyprus.

• Scientific Committee Member. Organizer of two sessions on Distributed computing in smart farming and agro-informatics, and New and improved methods in agricultural systems modelling, iEMSs 2020 (10th International Environmental Modelling and Software Society Conference, Modelling for Environmental Sustainability), Sept. 14-18, 2020 (new dates due to COVID-19), Brussels, Belgium and online.

• Keynote speaker, AI in Natural Sciences and Technology Workshop (AINST@SETN2020), Sept. 2-4, 2020, Athens, Greece.

• General chair of the 13th Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2020 (Data Science in Action), Feb. 5-7, 2020, Wageningen.

• Scientific committee member, organizing a session on Methods and software to support modelling activities, iCropM 2020 (Crop Modelling for the Future), Feb. 3-7, 2020, Montpellier, France.

• Organising committee member, Wageningen Data Science Week, Feb. 3-7, 2020, Wageningen.

Recent journal articles

• Simulation-assisted machine learning for operational digital twins, published in Environmental Modelling & Software

• Machine learning for regional crop yield forecasting in Europe, published in Field Crops Research

• Policy attention to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability: a global assessment of National Communications (1994–2019), published in Climate Policy

• Big data in agriculture: Between opportunity and solution, published in Agricultural Systems

• The current and future uses of machine learning in ecosystem service research, published in Science of The Total Environment

Full list of publications.

Academic Service

Academic Journal Editorial Boards

• Environmental Modelling and Software, (Associate Editor).

• Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, (Managing Editor).

Project Scientific Advisory Boards

• SUSCAP (Developing resource use efficiency for crops under future climate extremes and air quality), EU H2020 ERA-Net Cofund Action.

• AnaEE (Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems), European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastructures.

• IS-GEO Intelligent Systems for Geo-Sciences, EarthCube Research Coordination Network (NSF, USA).

• New Zealand Bioeconomy in the Digital Age (Harnessing the power of digital technologies to enable the transformation of New Zealand Food Systems), AgResearch, New Zealand.

• BEACON (Boosting Agricultural Insurance based on Earth Observation data), H2020 Research and Innovation Action.

My website

This is my web office! I have developed this habit to totally restructure my website every couple of years, as an excuse to sharpen my web development skills. Nowadays, I am porting my website from Wordpress to Jekyll, while changing hosts, so please be patient!