Dr. Jaume Puig-Bargués has a PhD in Agricultural
Engineering and he is currently Associate Professor of Agricultural Engineering
at the University of Girona. He has supervised more than 95 Bachelor and Master
dissertations, mainly in the agri-food degrees of the College of Engineering
(Polytechnic School) of the University of Girona. He has been involved in
several projects of teaching innovation focused on student self-evaluation in a
teaching platform and on project-based learning. He has been a visiting
scientist at Kansas State University and at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
His research is focused on the study of the hydraulical problems caused by the
use of reclaimed effluents in filters and emitters of microirrigation systems.
He has supervised 4 PhD dissertations on this topic. He has been a researcher
in 9 research projects (3 as principal researcher) funded by the Spanish
Government and in 13 other funded by several companies and organizations. He is
co-author of more than 75 papers published in journals including in the SCI and
of more than 80 papers presented in research conferences. Since 2014, he has
served as Associate Editor for the journals Journal of the ASABE and Applied
Engineering in Agriculture, and since 2023 also for the Journal of Irrigation
and Drainage Engineering.