20 March 2026
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Agriculture


Agriculture
(ISSN: 2077-0472) is pleased to announce the following 64 researchers who have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the Agriculture community!

Name: Dr. Duoduo Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, Nutrition and Food Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Research interests: fruit ripening; molecular biology; genetics & genomics; genetic engineering; crop improvement

Name: Dr. Vanesa Santás-Miguel
Affiliation: Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Research interests: antibiotics; heavy metals; leucine incorporation technique; PICT; resistance; soil microbial communities; toxicity

Name: Dr. Manuel Conde Cid
Affiliation:
Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Research interests: pesticides; antibiotics; heavy metals; agricultural soils; risk assessment; sustainable agriculture; agricultural management practices; adsorption–desorption; transport

Name: Dr. Georgia Koutouzidou
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Western Macedonia, 53100 Florina, Greece
Research interests: socioeconomic sustainability of livestock production systems; agricultural economics; farm management; multifunctionality

Name: Dr. Babett Greff
Affiliation: Department of Food Science, Széchenyi István University, 15-17 Lucsony Street, 9200 Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary
Research interests: soil microbiology; biodegradation; composting; foodborne pathogens; biocontrol

Name: Dr. Paloma Campos
Affiliation: Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IRNAS-CSIC), Reina Mercedes Av. 10, 41012 Seville, Spain
Research interests: soil amendments; biochar; pyrolysis; heavy metals; soil pollution; remediation; agricultural soils; degraded soils; soil quality; carbon sequestration

Name: Dr. Zalán Márk Maró
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Institute of Sustainable Development, Corvinus University of Budapest, Fővám tér 8, H-1093 Budapest, Hungary
Research interests: sustainable food systems; consumer behavior; consumer preferences; food waste; food choice

Name: Dr. Monika Nutautaitė
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Rearing Technologies, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžės Str. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania
Research interests: sustainability; animal production; growth performance; feed alternatives; feed efficiency; food chain; livestock innovation

Name: Dr. Donata Arena
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Via Valdisavoia n. 5, 95123 Catania, Italy
Research interests: agricultural plant science; biochemistry; brassica crops; novel food

Name: Dr. Shital Poudyal
Affiliation:
Department of Plants, Soils & Climate, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA
Research interests: best management practices on efficient irrigation of landscape nursery plants; promote unconventional water sources for irrigation and protect surface; promote unconventional water sources for irrigation and protect surface

Name: Dr. GwanSeon Kim
Affiliation: College of Agriculture, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR 72467, USA
Research interests: agricultural economics; agribusiness; food marketing; production economics; consumer economics; food supply chain; sustainable agriculture; environmental and resource economics; econometrics; international agri-food products

Name: Dr. Oscar Rosario Belfiore
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Portici, Italy
Research interests: remote sensing; irrigation scheduling; evapotranspiration; digital and precision agriculture; soil–crop–atmosphere; soil–water balance, irrigation water accounting, machine learning, irrigated areas mapping

Name: Dr. Csaba Bojtor
Affiliation:
Institute of Land Use, Engineering and Precision Farming Technology, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Research interests: early-stage plant stress detection; fertilization strategies; nutrient uptake dynamics; nutrient use efficiency; plant health; plant nutrition; precision agriculture; smart plant stress diagnostics

Name: Dr. Árpád Illés
Affiliation:
Institute of Land Use, Engineering and Precision Farming Technology, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Research interests: abiotic stress; fertilization; genotype evaluation; irrigation strategies; remote sensing

Name: Dr. Tilen Zamljen
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Research interests: biostimulants; fruit/vegetable secondary metabolites; herbs; sensors; post-harvest phytochemistry

Name: Dr. Péter Czine
Affiliation:
Coordination Center for Research in Social Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Research interests: food labeling; consumer preferences; pork sausage; meat products

Name: Dr. Hubert Hirwa
Affiliation:
 Sustainability Institute, School of the Environment, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA
Research interests: soil sciences; environmental management; environmental economics; natural resources management; development studies; sustainability; ecology; virtual water trade; dryland management; water accounting; water-energy-food nexus; sustainable agriculture; food

Name: Dr. Paola Foti
Affiliation:
Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Olivicoltura, Frutticoltura e Agrumicoltura, Corso Savoia 190, 95024 Acireale, Italy
Research interests: table olives; fermentation; by-products; bioactive compounds; starter cultures; microbial biotechnology

 

Name: Dr. Jagoda Żurek
Affiliation:
Department of Financial Markets and Consumer Finance, Faculty of Economics and Finance, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland
Research interests: consumer behavior; consumer choice; purchasing behavior; food market; purchase determinants; meat quality; food economics; consumer preferences

Name: Dr. Anna Milczarek
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Science and Fisheries, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Siedlce, Bolesława Prusa 14, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
Research interests: nutrition; feed; feed additives; monogastric animals; performance results; meat quality

Name: Dr. Qibiao Han
Affiliation:
Institute of Farmland Irrigation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xinxiang 453002, China
Research interests: microirrigation; integrated water and fertilizer; high efficiency water saving technology; irrigation technology and equipment

Name: Dr. Jie Zhu
Affiliation: Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Research interests: pollution reduction and carbon mitigation in agricultural environmental systems; sustainability

Name: Dr. Shijie Shi
Affiliation:
Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterlogging Disaster and Agricultural Use of Wetland, College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
Research interests: sensory characteristics; rice quality; machine learning; precision agriculture

Name: Dr. Chuncheng Liu
Affiliation:
Institute of Farmland Irrigation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xinxiang 453002, China
Research interests: safe agricultural utilization of brackish water and reclaimed water resources with agronomic regulation measures; study on control technologies for soil secondary salinization

Name: Prof. Dr. Anqi Li
Affiliation: College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Research interests: agricultural equipment

Name: Dr. Cheng Li
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology, School of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Research interests: climate change; agrometeorology; remote sensing and GIS in agriculture

Name: Dr. Shengqiang Wang
Affiliation:
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Research interests: soil nutrient

Name: Dr. Peng Chen
Affiliation: College of Agricultural Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Research interests: soil carbon; stable isotope; nitrogen; water-saving irrigation; paddy

Name: Dr. Yunpeng Gai
Affiliation: School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Research interests: plant diseases and control

Name: Dr. Cailong Xu
Affiliation:
Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Research interests: soybean high-yield cultivation and physiology

Name: Dr. Jiehua Qiu
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Center for Rice Improvement, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China
Research interests: rice blast; rice false smut; high temperature

Name: Dr. Zhiyong Li
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China
Research interests: plant genomics and genetics; molecular breeding; rice yield; carbon partitioning; seed development

Name: Prof. Dr. Zichen Huang
Affiliation: College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Research interests: intelligent perception; agricultural robot systems; fruit and vegetable production

Name: Prof. Dr. Li Wang
Affiliation: College of Life and Environmental Science, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
Research interests: agroecology; crop physiological and biotechnological breeding; crop cultivation; mycorrhizal symbiosis; genetics; rhizosphere

Name: Dr. Yang Liu
Affiliation: College of Agriculture, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China
Research interests: crop water/fertilizer monitoring and diagnosis; crop physiology and ecology

Name: Dr. Lucija Galić
Affiliation: Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Vladimira Preloga 1, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Research interests: soil health; agronomy; fertilization; plant physiology; agrochemistry; GIS

Name: Dr. Fabio Buonsenso
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019 Florence, Italy
Research interests: organic chemistry; organic synthesis; plant pathology; separation science; postharvest; mycotoxins; essential oils; chemical risk assessment

Name: Dr. Valeria Cafaro
Affiliation: CNR-Istituto per la BioEconomia (IBE), Sede Secondaria di Catania, Via P. Gaifami 18, 95126 Catania, Italy
Research interests: seed germination; sustainable use of irrigation water; crop management; fruit quality; biomass crops

Name: Dr. Anna Uliano
Affiliation: Department of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy
Research interests: consumer behavior; food science; innovation; sustainable agriculture

Name: Dr. Antonio Gattuso
Affiliation: Department of Agraria, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Salita Melissari, Feo di Vito, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Research interests: antioxidants; food analysis; food chemistry; food processing; recovery of waste and by-products

Name: Dr. Simone Pietro Garofalo
Affiliation: Research Center for Agriculture and Environment, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-AA), Via Celso Ulpiani, 5, 70125 Bari, Italy
Research interests: agronomy; tree crops

Name: Prof. Dr. Valerio Di Vittori
Affiliation: Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Research interests: legumes; genotype–environment interaction; nutritional quality; genomics; domestication

Name: Dr. Alessia Staropoli
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Naples Federico II, 80137 Naples, Italy
Research interests: metabolites; metabolomics; mass spectrometry; LC-MS; gc-ms; proteomics; trichoderma; biocontrol agents; beneficial microorganisms; crop production

Name: Dr. Kunyang Wang
Affiliation: Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
Research interests: catchment; water balance; nutrient cycle; modeling; remote sensing

Name: Dr. Valentin Burcă
Affiliation: Department of Economic Sciences,
Faculty of Economic Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Paul Chinezu, no. 19, 310100 Arad, Romania
Research interests: financial reporting; integrated reporting; sustainability reporting; internal audit; risk assessment and internal control systems; applied econometrics in accounting and audit research; business process management

Name: Dr. Aleksandar Ivezić
Affiliation: Center for Biosystems, Institute Biosense, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Research interests: biological control; IPM; beneficial organisms; natural enemies; Trichogramma spp.

Name: Dr. Zhuonan Wang
Affiliation: School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5418, USA
Research interests: earth system science; land surface modeling; soil organic carbon mapping; phosphorus cycle; carbon cycle; nitrogen cycle

Name: Dr. Carlo Russo
Affiliation: Department of Economics, Management and Territory, University of Foggia, Via A. da Zara, 11 71022 Foggia, Italy
Research interests: lifecycle assessment; sustainability; agro-food; sustainable mobility; energy; water; waste

Name: Dr. Eugenio Llorens
Affiliation: Laboratory of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Area of Vegetal Physiology, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellon, Spain
Research interests: plant microbiology; plant–microbe interaction; plant protection; induced resistance; plant physiology

Name: Dr. Terence Bradshaw
Affiliation: Department of Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont, 63 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Research interests: tree fruit; viticulture; horticulture; Integrated Pest Management; apple

Name: Dr. Thiago Gumiere
Affiliation: Department of Soil and Agri-Food Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, Université Laval, Québec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
Research interests: soil microbial ecology; biogeography; mycorrhizae; agroecology; environmental microbiology; crop system

Name: Dr. Baohua Feng
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Center for Rice Improvement, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China
Research interests: rice abiotic interaction; plant hormone; heat stress; low-temperature stress; salt stress; sugar metabolism

Name: Dr. Tianxiao Chen
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Center for Rice Improvement, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China
Research interests: genomics; crop biotic and abiotic tolerance; genetics and breeding; rice quality; salinity stress

Name: Dr. Xingyue Li
Affiliation: Institute of Plant Protection, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu 610066, China
Research interests: soil nematode; entomopathogenic nematode; plant-parasitic nematode; soil-borne disease; pest biological control; soil ecosystem

Name: Dr. Yanchao Zhang
Affiliation: School of Information Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Research interests: UAVs; remote sensing; digital agriculture; deep learning; insects; diseases

Name: Dr. József Sütő
Affiliations: 1 Department of IT Systems and Networks, University of Debrecen, 4028 Debrecen, Hungary;
2 Department of IT, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, 3300 Eger, Hungary
Research interests: AI in embedded systems; AI for computer vision

Name: Dr. Giulia Ferronato
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Environment, Land Planning and Mathematics (DICATAM), Università degli Studi di Brescia, 25121 Brescia, Italy
Research interests: environmental impact; circularity of the agro-livestock system; farm management; evaluation of the effect of mitigation strategies (animal welfare, nutrition, technologies)

Name: Dr. Nay Myo Win
Affiliation: Department of Horticulture & Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea
Research interests: fruit quality; fruit yield and production; smart farming; agricultural mechanization; cultivation practices; anthocyanin; gene expression analysis; antioxidant metabolites; ethylene; postharvest management

Name: Dr. Andra Sabina Neculai Valeanu
Affiliation: Research and Development Station for Cattle Breeding Dancu, 707252 Iasi, Romania
Research interests: dairy science; precision livestock science; milk quality; antibiotic resistance; cattle reproduction; cattle welfare

Name: Dr. Antonio Santos-Rufo
Affiliation: Department of Agroforestry Sciences, ETSI University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
Research interests: blueberry; blackberry; integrated pest management; Verticilium dahliae; remote sensing; machine learning

Name: Dr. Erika Tucker
Affiliation: Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Research Museum Center (RMC), 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
Research interests: hymenoptera; bees; parasitoids; museum; systematics; taxonomy; pollinator ecology

Name: Dr. Yari Vecchio
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Alma Mater University of Bologna, Via Tolara di Sopra 50, Ozzano dell’Emilia, 40064 Bologna, Italy
Research interests: agricultural economics; agrifood policies; innovation adoption; consumer science; rural development

Name: Prof. Dr. Nobuhito Sekiya
Affiliation: Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan
Research interests: rice; root development; nitrogen; organic fertilizer; Africa

Name: Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Poczta-Wajda
Affiliation: Department of Macroeconomics and Agricultural Economics, Poznan University of Economics and Business, al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland
Research interests: agricultural and food economics; sustainable agriculture; food security; international trade with agricultural products; agricultural policy and support measures

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