My team

Current team members

PhD students

• Ron van Bree (Wageningen Univ, 2022-). Area: Hybrid AI for food security.
• Rob Knapen (Wageningen Univ, 2021-). Area: Geospatial data engineering for digital agriculture.
• Dilli Paudel (Wageningen Univ, 2019-). Area: Machine learning for regional crop yield forecasting.
• Christos Pylianidis (Wageningen Univ, 2019-). Area: Digital twins for precision agriculture.
• Matt Scowen (Bangor Univ, 2019-). Area: Machine learning for ecosystem services
• Christos Giovanopoulos (VU Amsterdam, 2018-). Area: A synergy between anthropology and data science for infrastructural contenstation research.

Current postdocs:

Michiel Kallenberg, (Wageningen Univ, 2022-), Digital Future Farm

: Primary supervisor

Former team members

Graduated PhD students

• Eliana Papoutsoglou (Wageningen Univ, 2021). Thesis: Paving the way for FAIR data in plant phenotyping, then with Taxonic.
• Argyris Samourkasidis (Wageningen Univ, 2019). Thesis: Environmental timeseries lifecycle in the Internet of Things era: Lowering e-science barriers, then with ING.
• Dimitris Kremmydas, (Agricultural Univ. of Athens, 2018). Thesis: Integrated mathematical programming and agent based model for policy analysis of Greek agriculture , then with EU Joint Research Centre.

Past postdocs:

• Diego Marcos (2019-2021), Explainable AI for nature conservation, then Assistant Professor at GRS/WUR.
• Hiske Overweg (2020-2021), Reinforcement learning in Digital Future Farm, then data scientist at i2i
• Dirkjan Schokker (2018-2021), Breed4Food project, then with Wageningen Bioveterinary Research
• Dan Jenssen (2017), Big data for cow disease prediction project, then Assist. Prof. at Copenhagen University.