Cluster 2Agriculture, food and environmental sustainability

Leaders & coleaders
- Righi Federico (UNIPR)
- Maestri Elena (UNIPR)
Action plan 25-2026
•Monthly meeting according to schedule (starting from July 4th, no August?) – disseminate to Ukrainian partners
•Check the list of partners
•Committ to resubmit the MSCA SE
•Submit at least 2 Horizon Europe proposals (from seed/leverage)
•Propose at least 9 webinars, one per University
•Propose at least 9 seminars specifically directed to PhD students
•Exploit the next calls for leverage (1 with cluster 1?) – conferences/workshop (ReCircle-based conference/workshop?)
•Collect proposals for resarcher and teacher exchanges to organise the new wave of opportunities
•Collect proposals for internship (bachelor, master and PhD students)
•Discuss subclusters in view of attendance to meetings (survey to all participants)
Possible thematical evolution
- e.g. New colleagues from Wroclaw have brought to the cluster topics on remediation and nature-based solutions
- Also considering the Horizon Europe calls, some new directions could be addressed, to integrate with other clusters
–Agroforestry and ecosystem services
–Circular economy
–Pollution in agroecosystems
–Knowledge transfer and stakeholder involvement
–One health (animal, plant, humans, soil)?
–Food security

Members

SURNAME	NAME	Key words	UNIVERSITY
BYRNE	Dolores	Agriculture, Agricultural Development, Conservation Agriculture, Results-based agri-environmental payment schemes, Botany, Ecology	ATU
CURLEY	Edna	Soil Fertility, Plant Breeding, Animal Science, Agronomy, Bioenergy	ATU
DALTON	Jacinta	Culinary Arts & Service Industries	ATU
DERMIKI	Maria	Colloids, Sensory Evaluation, Surfactants, Food Processing, Food Packaging	ATU
Mullee	Amy		ATU
Keaver	Laura		ATU
GAVIN	Mel	Design assistance for new or improved products or processes Analysis and optimisation of resource, energy & waste streams Renewable energy and sustainable technologies CAD design and 3D prototyping	ATU
GHARBIA	Salem	Water resources, climate change and integrated environmental systems modelling with Geographic Information System (GIS)	ATU
KENNY	Owen	LC-MS/MS, Natural Product Chemistry, HPLC Analysis, Natural Antioxidants, Antimicrobial Activity	ATU
LENNON	Seamus		ATU
LUCY	Frances	EU GREEN Project Lead	ATU
MCFADDEN	Kim		ATU
MCGUIRE	Helen	Diabetes Mellitus, Global Health Hypertension Diabetes Drug DevelopmentNutrition	ATU
Moran	James		ATU
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Mulchrone	Margaret	EU GREEN Project Manager	ATU
SMYTH	Thomas		ATU
CHOWDHURY	Ehsanul	marketing and Supply Chain Management	HiG
GOMES	João	Photovoltaic Systems, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Renewable Energy Technologies, Solar Energy Materials, Energy Conversion, Solar Radiation, Energy Engineering, Solar Energy Systems	HiG
VIRGA	Giuseppe		HiG
HILLSTROM	Lars	Behavioral Ecology, Ornithology, Fisheries, camera-trapping	HiG
WRIGHT	sandra	Cloning, Gel Electrophoresis, Microbial Molecular Biology, , PCR, Antibiotic Resistance, , Electrophoresis, DNA Extraction, Treatment, Plant Biology, Genetic Engineering	HiG
Müller	Daniel		OVGU
HAMEL	Christof	Reaction technology/reaction kinetics in heterogeneous systems,Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, Innovative integrated reactor concepts, Separation processes Modeling and simulation, Process technology and process design	OVGU
HAUGHEY	Eamon	Climate change, land use, sustainable agriculture, soil science, plant ecophysiology	ATU
HELESBEUX	Jean-Jacques	Lecturer in Organic chemistry Running research at SONAS focusing on natural and semisynthetic products with high pharmacological potency (in silico design, synthesis)	UA
HEURTIER	Anne	signal and image processing, mainly multiscale and entropy-based analyses, and data-driven methods. Her main applications are related to the biomedical field.	UA
LEDUC	Nathalie	Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology and Physiology	UA
LEFEBVRE	Marianne	environmental economy, agricultural economy, experimental economy, evaluation of public policies	UA
MASSOT	Vincent	European project advisor	UA
PANTIN SOHIER	Gaëlle	Branding, Brand Management,Strategic Marketing, Advertising, Marketing Management, Food Analysis, , Social Media Marketing, Customer Satisfaction, Digital Marketing, Business Marketing	UA
RENAUD	Pierre-Cyril	Ecology, Wildlife Ecology, Wildlife Conservation, Animal Ecology, Conservation Biology, Conservation, Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Biodiversity Monitoring, Behavioral Ecology	UA
ROUSSEAU	David	biodiversity conservation, behavioral ecology (focused mainly on large herbivores), GIS, landscape ecology and interaction between human activities and wildlife management in socio-ecological or agro systems in tropical areas. He focuses on the interfaces between protected areas and agricultural land. He tends to use the complete gradient from core protected area to full agricultural matrix. His research has for objective to bridge ecology, geography and agronomy to promote Human/Nature coexistence at landscape scale by moving toward sustainable public policies.	UA
BAPTISTA	Fatima	environmental control, circular economy, energy efficiency, agriculture, animal production and health	UE
JOAO CABRITA	Maria	wine technology, stabilization and sensory analysis in Enology Viticulture and Enology and Food Science	UE
LUCAS	Raquel	Marketing Behaviour Studies Agribusiness & SustainabilityFood Value Chain, Food Safety	UE
BENITO BERNÁLDEZ	Maria José	microbiology, food safety and quality	UEx
RODRIGUEZ JIMÉNEZ	Alicia	Applied Mycologyreal-time PCRmycotoxinsgene expressioncured meats	UEx
RUIZ-MOYANO SECO DE HERRERA	Santiago	Skills and Expertise, Food & Nutrition, Food Safety, Food Analysis, food Quality, Antimicrobials, PCR, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Food Science and Technology	UEx
CHIANCONE	Benedetta	The use of agrifood waste as organic fertilizers and in several field of in vitro tissue culture.	UNIPR
MAESTRI	Elena	Environmental biotechnologies, sustainability, agriculture, biochar	UNIPR
RIGHI	Federico	Ruminant Nutrition, Feed Formulation, Animal Production, Animal Nutrition, Animal Science, Feeding, Dairy, Meat Quality, Dairy Science, Animal Physiology	UNIPR
BREJEA	Radu	Soil, Fertilizers, Soil Analysis, , Environment , soil Fertility, Environmental Impact assessment, Soil and Water Conservation, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Conservation Agriculture	UO
SOCOL	Claudia		UO
MAERESCU	Cristina	Farming, Organic Farming	UO
LEWANDOWSKA	Sylwia	Plant Genetics, Plant Breeding, Plant Biotechnology, Plant Tissue Culture, Molecular Plant, breeding, Crop Improvement, Agricultural Biotechnology, Transgenics,Plant Development, Disease Resistance	UPWR
MICHALSKA-CIECHANO	Anna	drying (plant & fuit powders), polyphebnols, anthocyanins, processing	UPWR
SZYMURA	Magdalena	alien species, plant invasion, landscape ecology	UPWR
Burszta-Adamiak	Ewa		UPWR
Biniak-Pieróg	Małgorzata		UPWR
Bawiec	Aleksandra		UPWR

Cluster 2Agriculture, food and environmental sustainability

Leaders & coleaders

Action plan 25-2026

Members

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