CIGR - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Sustainable Production in Water Limited Environments of Mediterranean Agro - Ecosystem ( SUPROMED )

Sustainable production in water limited environments of Mediterranean agro-ecosystem (SUPROMED)

Dr. Yohei Sato was born in 1942 in Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1967, and received his Ph. D in Agriculture from the University of Tokyo in 1972. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, President of the Japan Association of Agricultural Engineering Enterprise (JAGREE) and also Chairperson of the Board of Director of Food & Agriculture Business Innovation Organization (FABIO).He began his career as an assistant professor of the University of Tokyo in 1972. Later he moved to the Faculty of Agriculture at Utsunomiya University in 1979 and served as an associate professor. And he moved to the Institute of Socio-Economic Planning at the University of Tsukuba in 1980 and served as associate professor and full professor. In 1996, he moved back to the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Tokyo and served as a full professor until his retirement in 2004. After retirement he moved to Tokyo Agriculture University and served a full professor, and one year later he was invited as the president to the National Research Institute for Agro-environment Sciences until 2011. Some selected awards: He won Young Scientist Award in 1972, International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR) Recognition of Outstanding Contributions in 2000, Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering (JSIDRE) Award in 2004, CIGR Merit Award in 2006, and International Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering (PAWEES) International Award in 2007, a Founding Fellow of the International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (iAABE) in 2016. He was also honored from Wuhan University, China in 1998 as an Honorary Professor, and was invited as a Guest Professor to Beijing Normal University, China in 2003. Publications: He has conducted researches in the field of land consolidation, rural land use planning, and regional resources management and local environmental engineering. He has published more than 150 refereed papers and 32 book chapters and books. Particularly, he has made remarkable achievements on rural land use planning. Some selected contributions to academic communities: He has also made several outstanding contributions not only to domestic academic societies such as the Rural Planning Association and JSIDRE as a President, and Japan Association for Human and Environmental Symbiosis as a Vice President but also to international academic societies such as CIGR as a Chairperson, an Executive Board member and an Honorary Vice President, PAWEES as a President and an Editor-in-Chief of the international journal of "Paddy and Water Environment", and a Chairperson of Japan National Committee of International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID).

Job Titles:

• Associate Professor in Livestock Housing at the Lab

Panagiotis Panagakis serves as an Associate Professor in Livestock Housing at the Lab. of Farm Structures at the Agricultural University of Athens. His is involved in teaching focusing on Livestock Buildings and research including animal response to environmental stressors and solutions based on Precision Livestock Farming (PLF). He is a member of the GIGR Section II Technical Section and Technical Board.

Job Titles:

• Department of Agricultural

Job Titles:

• Department of Agricultural

Job Titles:

• Department of Engineering

Job Titles:

• Indian Agricultural Research Institute / India

Job Titles:

• Associate Professor of Precision Livestock Farming

Dr Tomas Norton is a tenured associate professor of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) at the Department of Biosystems at KU Leuven, Belgium. He heads up the PLF research line in the research team of M3-BIORES (Measure, Model, Manage Biological Responses), which resides in the Division of Animal and Human and Health Engineering at Campus Arenberg, KU Leuven. His current research is centered on the development of PLF technology for animal health and welfare monitoring and management. He is PI and co-PI on collaborative National and International projects funded by the Belgium government, EU and USA. He coordinates courses on Measuring, Modelling and Managing Bio-responses and Sustainable PLF at the KU Leuven. Since 2018 he is chair of CIGR Section II, the chair of the Technical Board and member of the Executive Board. He is co-author of 80+ SCI publications, 50+ conference proceedings, 10+ book chapters and co-editor of one book. He is currently chair of Section II and Technical Board of the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR). He is Editor-in-Chief at Elsevier journal Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. Associate Editor of the Cell Press journal Heliyon (Agriculture), Frontiers of Veterinary Science (Animal Behavior and Welfare) and Frontiers of Animal Science (Precision Livestock Farming). He is currently series editor for Springer Nature Book Series: Smart Animal Production and Springer Nature Encyclopedia of Smart Agricultural Technologies.