Gizele Ingrid Gadotti is an Agricultural Engineer and a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow (Level 2). She holds a Ph.D. in Seed Science and Technology from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), with a sandwich period at Oregon State University, an M.Sc. in the same field, and a B.Eng. in Agricultural Engineering, also from UFPel. She is currently an Associate Professor at UFPel, where she coordinates the Agrotechnology Laboratory. She has served as Coordinator of the Professional Master's Program in Seed Science and Technology and as Coordinator of the Research and Innovation Chamber at UFPel's Engineering Center. Her research focuses on. equipament development and applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to seed quality control, with numerous publications in high-impact journals and several books on seed processing. She is the former President of the Brazilian Association of Agricultural Engineers (ABEAG) and former Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Agricultural Engineering (SBEA). In 2022, she received the ASHRAE Brasil Chapter Diversity Award for her work on gender equality in engineering.