Dr. Alessandro Carella earned a PhD in Biodiversity in Agriculture and Forestry from the University of Palermo in 2024, with a thesis on “continuous plant-based and remote sensing for assessing fruit tree water status”. He currently holds a postdoctoral research position at the Department SAAF. His expertise includes precision agriculture, tree water relations and drought stress, and fruit trees precision management, with skills in proximal and remote sensing technologies, data analysis, and machine learning applications in agriculture.