Research Group
The research group is made up of people with different skills to create the fundamental synergies to be able to address the study of agroforestry and agri-food systems. The team’s skills allow it to consider studies and research focused on very specific aspects, as well as on the technical, economic, environmental and management performance of the entire system inserted in the context of its environment or value chain.
Professors
Prof. Fabrizio Mazzetto
Farm Machinery and Mechanisation
Main research topics: a) agricultural mechanics and mechanisation, including the development of prototypes of agricultural machinery featured by radical innovations (stripper heads for cereal harvesting, small articulated tractors for the steep lands), b) safety working conditions on extreme environments; c) mitigation of drift phenomena from spraying applications; d) information technology for the digital management of farm processes, including precision agriculture and automation, e) energy applications in the rural sector.
Prof. Andreas Gronauer
Agro-System-Engineering
The research interests cover a range of environmental technologies and agricultural engineering topics, with a particular focus on sustainability. The research domain concerns the global area of environmental and agricultural technology.
Researchers
Dr. Giovanni Carabin
My research focuses on the rollover safety of agro-forestry machinery and the development of advanced smart and robotic technologies within the agro-forestry domain.
Dr. Pasqualina Sacco
Main research topics: information systems for smart agroforestry applications, digital and sustainable transformation of production systems and value chains, circular economy and multi-criteria and multi-actors evaluation (including LCA).
Dr. Massimiliano Schiavo
My research vectors span across rural constructions, geostatistics, and machine learning approaches applied to agricultural engineering and earth system sciences.
Scientific collaborators and technologists
Dr. Andreas Mandler
I do research on agriculture in mountain areas at the intersection of technology and learning. I am coordinating the projects CEREALP and USAGE-NG.
Roberto Limongelli
My research and activity focus on mechanisation in mountain areas, accreditation process and testing of sprayers.
MSE Merve Karaca
My current research centers on the rollover protection and stability of agricultural and forestry tractors under real operating conditions by using advanced CAE methodologies.
Dr. MSE Francesco Fabio Nicolosi
My current research focus on engines’ performance consumption and emission tests and assessment of the energy performance of agricultural activities.
PhD students
Aeysha Ali
My research focuses on the design and development of capacitive and impedance-based sensing solutions for the evaluation of spray drift and deposition.
Lorenzo Becce
Research on orchard spraying technologies and air flow behaviour.
Gohar Mahmood
Operational monitoring, Farm management systems and GIS