Dr. Giorgio Provolo

Obtained a PhD in Rural Engineering in 1990. He has been a Full Professor of rural buildings and agro-forest land planning since 2010. During his career, he has focused on housing structures and the management of livestock manure on intensive livestock farms. In particular, he has focused on reducing the environmental impact resulting from the management of manure on livestock farms and the influence of housing structures on the welfare of dairy cows, with particular reference to the automation of animal behavior assessment. Since 2000, he has served as chairman of the Working Group “Organic waste management” of the Research Network FAO-RAMIRAN. From 2016 to 2017, he was a member of the "Nutrient Recycling" Focus Group in the context of European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI, European Commission). He is a member of the Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.