Welcome!

I am an Associate Professor in Data Science with the Laboratory of Geoinformation Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University and Research, in the Netherlands.

On my website you will find about my research grants, team, teaching and publications. Check also the new community-driven, open-access journal Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling!

New postdoc position!

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work together with a multidisciplinary team on Machine Learning for a farm digital twin to feed the world! Join me at Wageningen University to investigate Machine Learning for enabling data-driven decisions at a farm level, from yield prediction to fertiliser optimisation! Drop me an email, if interested!

Agenda

I am involved in organizing the following events:

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

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

• co-Chair of the Programme Committee, Enviroinfo 2020 (34th International Conference in Environmental Informatics, Digital Twins for Sustainability), Sep 23, 2020, 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), Sep 14, 2020, Brussels, Belgium and online.

• Keynote speaker, AI in Natural Sciences and Technology Workshop (AINST@SETN2020), Sep 02, 2020, Athens, Greece.

• General chair of the 13th Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2020 (Data Science in Action), Feb 05, 2020, Wageningen.

• Scientific committee member, organizing a session on Methods and software to support modelling activities, iCropM 2020 (Crop Modelling for the Future), Feb 03, 2020, Montpellier, France.

• Organising committee member, Wageningen Data Science Week, Feb 03, 2020, Wageningen.

• Co-organizer and instructor, Graduate School Data Science for Agriculture and Food Security, Nov 25, 2019, Novi Sad, Serbia.

Recent journal articles

• Storing, combining and analysing turkey experimental data in the Big Data era, published in Animal

• Enabling reusability of plant phenomic datasets with MIAPPE 1.1, published in New Phytologist

• Blockchain applications in the agrifood domain: the first wave, published in Frontiers in Blockchain

• A semantic approach for timeseries data fusion, published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Full list of publications.

Academic Service

Academic Journal Editorial Boards

• Environmental Modelling and Software, (Associate Editor).

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

• Environmental Policy and Law, (Editorial Board Member).

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!