Riccardo Lo Bianco received his Ph.D. in Horticulture at the University of Georgia in 1998. Then, he worked as a Research Scholar/Research Technician III in 1998–2002 in the same institution. In 2002, he joined the University of Palermo and is a Full Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences here. He is also a member of the Italian Society of Horticulture (SOI) and the International Society for Horticultural Science. His primary research and teaching interests are precision water management, source-sink relations, and production of tree fruits.