Robert Benković, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the biotechnical department at the University of Slavonski Brod, Croatia. He graduated in 2001 from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, in the field of agricultural mechanization. His postgraduate doctoral study of agricultural science, completed in Osijek in 2022, is titled " xploitation indicators of agricultural mechanization and different tillage systems influence on crops yield formation". From 2002 to 2011, he was a sales manager at an import-export business with construction mechanization and equipment, and from 2011 until now, he has been employed as a senior lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, followed by employment at the University of Slavonski Brod in 2020. He is a member of the International TEAM Society, and a member of the International Society for Tillage Study (ISTRO) and former President of the Society of Agronomists Slavonski Brod (2019.-2023.), In addition to lecturing, his main research interests are sustainable use of water in agriculture, and mechanization in horticulture. He has published 40 papers and 1 manual for performing exercises in the course “Viticulture and Fruit Growing”.