Prof. Yan Zhu

Yan Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in crop cultivation and farming from Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, in 2003.,From 2012 to 2013, she was a Visiting Scientist with the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. She is currently a Professor of information agronomy and the Dean of the College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University. Her research has been broadly focused on smart farming theory and technology and has made significant achievements in digital simulation of crop productivity formation process, and spectral monitoring and quantitative diagnosis of crop growth indicators. She is the author of more than 170 papers in Web of Science indexed journals, including Nature Climate Change and Global Change Biology, and 3 book chapters.,Dr. Zhu was a recipient of the Second-Class National Award for Progress in Science and Technology twice, as the second recipient, the First-Class Jiangsu Provincial Agricultural Technology Extension Award as the leading recipient, the Youth Science and Technology Award of China and the Young Women Scientist of China, and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2017. She is a member of the Steering Council for the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project. She is an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Agronomy.