Dr. Christos Noulas is an agonomist (Researcher B') at the Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops (Larissa, Greece) of the Hellenic Agricultural Organization "Dimitra". His research interests include topics related to soil fertility and sustainable nutrient management, improved nitrogen use efficiency, soil–plant relations, plant nutritional physiology, land use, soil quality, crop production, and root morphological traits about crop nutrition. He received his Diploma in Soil Science (M.Sc. equivalent) in
1996 from the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece). In 2002, he completed his Ph.D. studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich—ETH (Institute of Agricultural Sciences—IAS). His research focused on topics related to nitrogen (N) use efficiency parameters in cereals, soil–plant relations, and cereal root morphological traits, particularly about crop nutrition and production in temperate regions. He has participated in several research projects at the international, national, regional, and EU levels and in European Concerted Actions (COST Actions). He is a member of the Ongoing United Nations’ Environment Project “Towards INMS” and the Collaborative Network on Quinoa (FAO, TCP).
Stamatis Stamatiadis was born and attended high school in Athens, Greece. He received his B.Sc. degree in 1980 in biology from the University of London, his M.S. in 1983, and Ph.D. in 1986 in soil biology and ecology from the Department of Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY, Syracuse, New York. Upon graduation, he held a postdoc appointment as a
research associate in Soil Microbiology with John Doran, Ph.D. (by cooperative agreement between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the USDA Agricultural Research Service). From 1989–1992, he taught terrestrial ecology and soil microbiology at the University of the Aegean, Greece, while at the same time, he established the Soil Ecology and Biotechnology Laboratory at the Goulandris Natural History Museum, Athens, Greece. His early laboratory research concerned mass protein production from earthworms and microalgae. In the 1990s, he collaborated with ARS-Lincoln and UC-Santa Cruz for the development of soil
quality indicators. Since 2000, he has worked in association with James Schepers, Ph.D., of ARS-Lincoln, on ground-sensor remote sensing technologies and variable-rate nitrogen application systems. His latest accomplishments are the direct funding of two European Union projects on precision nitrogen and water management—HydroSense and FATIMA—while maintaining an adjunct professor status at Nebraska.
Ruijun Qin received the M.Sc. degree in soil science from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree in agronomy from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Zürich, Switzerland. He is currently an Extension Agronomist with Oregon State University's Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Hermiston,
OR, USA, and an Associate Professor with the Department of Crop and Soil Science, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria. He was with the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, Washington, DC, USA, and the University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA. He plays a key role in organizing growers' meetings and field days in Northeastern Oregon and Southeastern Washington. His extension and research efforts focus on nutrient and water management, crop production, cropping systems, cover crops, organic amendments, environmental quality, and soil health.
Dr. Eleftherios Evangelou is an agronomist/soil scientist, working as a researcher in the Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops of
the Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”. His focus is on improving soil quality through soil management. His main research interests include soil quality monitoring, soil organic carbon pools, re-use of agricultural and municipal wastes on soils, and the use of innovative technologies in precision agriculture. He is trained as an Agronomist (Aristotelian University of
Thessaloniki) and holds a Ph.D. in Soil Science (Department of Environment, University of the Aegean). His Ph.D. research deals with the land use effect on soil quality. He is working on international/national soil-related research projects, and the results of his work have been published in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.
_Qin.png)
