Keynote Speakers

Eric CESCHIA

INRAE, France

Research Director and Deputy Director of CESBIO

Eric CESCHIA is a INRAE Research Director at the Center for Spatial Studies of the BIOsphere (CESBIO) in Toulouse, France. His work consists in comparing different strategies for climate change mitigation in agriculture (mainly cropland) in order to prioritize them. For this, he analyses the biogeochemical (soil C storage, GHG emissions) and the biogeophysical (e.g. albedo effect) contributions to the net radiative forcing associated to changes in agricultural management. He currently develops approaches combining remote sensing data assimilaion in crop model and in-siu data in order to map cropland production, CO2/water fluxes and soil organic carbon stock changes at high resolution, but over large areas, based on Sentinel satellite data. He has published more than 70 papers in peer review journals and has more than 4700 citations (H index = 37)

Jan Peter LESSCHEN

Wageningen Environmental...

Senior Researcher

Jan Peter Lesschen is an expert on climate change mitigation and soil carbon sequestration in agriculture. He is working as senior researcher at Wageningen Environmental Research. He has an MSc in soil science and a PhD on land degradation. A key characteristic of his work is integrating knowledge and data from soil science, greenhouse gas emissions, land use and agriculture for projects on monitoring and policy support. He is coordinator of the recently started Soil Mission project CAFAMORE and WP leader in the MARVIC and ClieNFarms projects. Furthermore, he is supporting DG CLIMA and the Expert Group on carbon removals on the development of carbon farming certification methodologies.

Davide VIAGGI

University of Bologna, Italy

Professor in Agricultural Economics and Rural Appraisal

Davide Viaggi is Full Professor in Agricultural Economics and Rural Appraisal. Working since almost 35 years in the field, with research interests focused on bioeconomy, agricultural policy, innovation and education, economics of water use in agriculture, environmental evaluation, economics of agri-environmental schemes, farm management. He coordinated five EU projects (CAP-IRE and CLAIM of FP7, PROVIDE and CONSOLE in H2020, BIOBEC in BBI) and participated in other 30 funded by the European Commission framework programs and about 70 funded by other institutions. Davide has 173 publications indexed in Scopus Davide was editor-in-chief of the journal “Bio-based and applied economics”, published in 2018 the book “The Bioeconomy. Delivering sustainable green growth”, CABI, UK and was recently editor of the “Handbook on the Bioeconomy”, Edward Elgar, UK. He was a consultant of the European Commission and is now part of the Coordination Group of the European Bioeconomy University.

Kazem ZAMANIAN

Leibniz University of...

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Earth System Sciences, Section Soil Science

Kazem Zamanian is a soil scientist who specializes in the dynamics of soil inorganic carbon, including carbonate minerals and dissolved CO₂ species, in relation to land use and climate change. His research focuses on the cycling of carbon and nitrogen in the unsaturated zone (i.e. from the Earth's surface to the groundwater surface), the influence of humans on soil formation and the mechanisms of pedogenic carbonate formation and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. He holds a PhD from the University of Göttingen and is actively involved in scientific publishing and professional societies.