SOILdarity People

FCiências + Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon

<mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Cristina Cruz</mark>
Cristina Cruz

Cristina is a lecturer in Plant Biology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she has carried out research in the Plant-Soil Ecology Group of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c).

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<mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Ana Maria Ventura</mark>
Ana Maria Ventura

Ana is a sociologist and an expert in environmental planning and rural development. She works for the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and collaborates with several NGOs linked to agriculture and regional development.

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<mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Ângela Antunes</mark>
Ângela Antunes

Ângela collaborates with FC.ID since 2019 as project manager for International Projects. Previously she has worked as financial and administrative manager of the research group “Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Modelling – CCIAM”.

<mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Carla Marques</mark>
Carla Marques

Carla is the Head of International Projects Department of FC.ID. She collaborates with FC.ID since 2008 and has experience in International R&D projects management (Framework Programmes, ESA, EUMETSAT, COST). She has large experience in international project management.

MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute

<mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Michael (Iggy) Litaor</mark>
Michael (Iggy) Litaor

Iggy is the head of the Hydrogeochemistry Lab at MIGAL and Chairperson of the Master Program (M.Sc.) of water sciences, at the Tel Hai College in Israel. Since 1996, he studies the hydro-geochemistry of phosphorus in wetlands and in altered wetland soils. Most recently, his research focuses on the development of integrated solution systems for precision irrigation and fertilizer management.

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<mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Uri Marchaim</mark>
Uri Marchaim

Uri is the head of the department for rural development and the coordinator of “Precision
Agriculture” at MIGAL. He has a 40-year research experience on anaerobic digestion of organic wastes, wastewater treatment, composting organic materials, examining the effect of pathogens and hazards to the environment.

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University of Ghent (UGent)

<mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Abdul Mouazen</mark>
Abdul Mouazen

Abdul is Full Professor in precision soil and crop management and group leader of the Precision SCoRing Group at UGent. He holds a PhD degree in numerical modelling of soil-tillage tools interaction. His experience in vis-NIR spectroscopy and chemometric tools enabled him to develop one of three internationally patented online measurement systems of soil properties. Abdul is currently the scientific coordinator of the H2020 project SIEUSOIL.

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<mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Muhammad Abdul Munnaf</mark>
Muhammad Abdul Munnaf

Munnaf is a Scientific Researcher within the Precision Scoring group at Gent University. Very soon, he is going to defend his PhD when he utilizes advanced proximal and remote sensors data fusion for precision seeding. He has experience in digital farming, advanced machine & deep learning, geostatistical analytics, crop modeling, and farm machinery systems. He is also an Assistant Professor in Agricultural Engineering at HSTU, Bangladesh.

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