Dr. Francesco Marinello Appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Digital Agriculture” in Agriculture
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Francesco Marinello has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Digital Agriculture” in Agriculture. Dr. Francesco Marinello is a researcher at the University of Padova (Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Padova, Italy) and an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia (Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Athens, USA). |
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He holds an MSc from the University of Padova in Mechanical Engineering and in 2006, he completed a PhD in Industrial Production Engineering at the University of Padova, in joint supervision with the Technical University of Denmark. He has more than 10 years of experience in measurement and sensing technologies applied for the monitoring and enhancement of agricultural operations.
He is the author of four patents and more than 120 papers indexed by Scopus, published in the field of proximal and remote sensing and in precision agriculture. His teaching activity includes courses on applied statistics, agricultural engineering, precision farming, and unmanned aerial vehicles for agriculture.
He is participating as a proposer or as a scientific partner for several projects funded in the framework of the European rural development program and of the European Regional Development Fund, focused on vineyard sustainability, greenhouse sensing, and agricultural machinery improvement. He is also participating in two other H2020 funded projects (Varcities, Echo-Mac).
We warmly welcome Dr. Francesco Marinello as the Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Digital Agriculture”, and we look forward to achieving many milestones under his leadership. For further information on the journal section, please visit the following link.