25 February 2026
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Members of Agronomy


Agronomy
(ISSN: 2073-4395) is pleased to announce that the following 25 researchers have been added to our 2026 Early Career Editorial Board. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the Agronomy community!

Name: Dr. Alessia Staropoli
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Naples Federico II, Via Delpino, 1, 80137 Naples, Italy
Research interests: sustainable agronomy; crop protection; microbial omics; biocontrol; plant–microbe interactions; bioformulation development

Name: Prof. Dr. Dener Márcio da Silva Oliveira
Affiliation: Instituto de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade Federal de Viçosa—Campus Florestal. Road LMG 818, km 06, Florestal 35690-000, MG, Brazil
Research interests: soil organic matter; climate-smart agriculture; soil quality; soil carbon; soil management

Name: Dr. Donata Arena
Affiliation: Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
Research interests: agricultural plant science; metabolomics; brassica crops; novel food; biotechnology

Name: Dr. Ewa Maria Furmanczyk
Affiliation: Department of Plant Protection, The National Institute of Horticultural Reseach, 96-100 Skierniewice, Poland
Research interests: integrated pest management; biological control; agroecology; organic farming; nematodes; soil biodiversity; sustainable agriculture; bioremediation; functional biodiversity; nematode biodiversity, nematode control; soil health

Name: Dr. Gabriella Sferra
Affiliation: Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, 86090 Pesche, Italy
Research interests: bioinformatics; botany; data integration and visualization; omics data analysis; functional genomics; data-guided biological knowledge inference; plant response to stress; plant biology; prediction of inter-taxa interactions; interaction networks

Name: Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Usman Aslam
Affiliation: Plant Pathology Program, San Luis Valley Research Center, Colorado State University, Center, CO 81125, USA
Research interests: plant disease diagnostics and management; fungal and bacterial genetic diversity; morpho-molecular characterization of plant pathogens; bioinformatics

Name: Dr. Igor Pasković
Affiliation: Department of Agriculture and Nutrition, Institute of Agriculture and Tourism, Karla Huguesa 8, 52440 Poreč, Croatia
Research interests: plant protection; plant nutrition

Name: Dr. Ioannis Roussis
Affiliation: Laboratory of Agronomy, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece
Research interests: agronomy; crop science; sustainable agriculture; organic agriculture; fertilization practices; tillage systems; weed management; industrial crops; feed crops; alternative crops; medicinal plants

Name: Dr. Javad Mottaghipisheh
Affiliation: Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7050, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Research interests: natural products chemistry; analytical chemistry; medicinal plants

Name: Dr. Jing Li
Affiliation: The National Engineering Laboratory for Crop Molecular Breeding, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing 100081, China
Research interests: population genetics; quantitative genetics; bioinformatics; statistical genomics

Name: Dr. Kunyang Wang
Affiliation: Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
Research interests: water cycle; nutrient cycle; hydrological modeling; remote sensing; GIS; climate change; urbanization; human impact; machine learning

Name: Dr. Lei Wang
Affiliation: School of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Research interests: soil microbial ecology; global change ecology; climate change; soil carbon and nitrogen cycling; rhizosphere processes; bioinformatics

Name: Dr. Luana Pulvirenti
Affiliation: Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB), National Research Council (CNR), Catania, Italy
Research interests: organic chemistry; natural products; targeted analysis; specialized metabolites; phytochemicals

Name: Dr. Marco Colacci
Affiliation: Department of Agriculture, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, via de Sanctis, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
Research interests: integrated pest management; fruit fly; lepidoptera

Name: Dr. Martyn J. Wood
Affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (IMBB-FORTH), 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Research interests: biological control; semiochemicals; microbiology and microbial secondary metabolites; integrated pest management

Name: Dr. Paraskevi Agrafioti
Affiliation: School of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, Fytokou St., 384 46 Nea Ionia, Magnisia, Greece
Research interests: insect pest; chemical control; biological control; physical control; novel pest control; stored product insects

Name: Dr. Rui Guo
Affiliation: Host–Pathogen Interaction Mechanism and Precision Medicine Team, National & Local United Engineering Laboratory of Natural Biotoxin, Apitherapy Research Institute, College of Bee Science and Biomedicine, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Research interests:
host–pathogen interaction; transgene; disease diagnosis and control; omics

Name: Dr. Saadat Ullah Malghani
Affiliation: Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
Research interests: biogeochemistry; soil science/biochar; biowaste recycling; soil fertility; GHGs; stable isotopes

Name: Dr. Sergio Vélez
Affiliation: JRU Drone Technology, Department of Architectural Constructions and I.C.T., University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Research interests: precision agriculture; remote sensing; UAV imagery (drones); viticulture and vineyards; vegetation indices (NDVI; etc.); disease detection in crops; lidar and 3d crop mapping; satellite imagery (landsat and sentinel); deep learning & machine learning; agrivoltaics and sustainable farming

Name: Dr. Sofia Maria Muscarella
Affiliation: Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Research interests: agricultural chemistry; environmental engineering; composting; nutrient recovery; wastewater; alternative fertilizer

Name: Dr. Xuechen Yang
Affiliation: Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ürümqi 830011, China
Research interests: plant–soil interactions; soil processes; soil microbial ecology; soil carbon sequestration; application of n-15 tracer in soils research

Name: Dr. Yong Zhang
Affiliation: Department of Agricultural Entomology, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
Research interests: insect pests; cereal crops; plant resistance; insect–plant interactions

Name: Dr. Yongzong Lu
Affiliation: School of Agricultural Engineering, Jiangsu Universisty, No. 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, China
Research interests: agrometeorological disasters monitoring and control; crop model; agricultural water management; machine learning; precision irrigation and deficit irrigation; agrometeorology and evapotranspiration; drip fertigation regulation; frost protection; water and heat flux modelling and observation

Name: Dr. Yucheng Wang
Affiliation: Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
Research interests: insect ecology; pest management; insecticide resistance; thermal stress; detoxification mechanisms; molecular entomology; multi-omics; climate–pest interactions

Name: Prof. Dr. Yurii Syromiatnykov
Affiliation: Institute of Soil and Plant Sciences, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, 3001 Jelgava, Latvia
Research interests: sustainable agriculture; microbial biotechnology; biofertilizers; soil microbiome; humic substances; vortex layer technology; agro-industrial waste utilization

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