Dr Siobhan Abeyesinghe
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Siobhan Abeyesinghe has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in understanding and improving chicken welfare’.
Dr Siobhan Abeyesinghe is Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science at the Royal Veterinary College – University of London, UK. She is currently Head of the Royal Veterinary College Animal Welfare Science and Ethics group. Dr Abeyesinghe also holds several external positions, including Scientific Advisor Member of the RSPCA Chicken Standards Technical Advisory Group. She specialises in poultry behaviour, cognition and welfare and publishes in this area.
Dr Daniel Leybourne and Dr Trisna Tungadi
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Daniel Leybourne and Dr Trisna Tungadi have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: 'Advances in understanding and managing crop viruses’.
Dr Daniel Leybourne is Head of the Pest and Pathogen Surveillance Team at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), a leading government-funded research institute supporting the agricultural sector in Northern Ireland (UK). Dr Leybourne was formerly a Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool (UK) (awarded a Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship). He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and a former recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (Germany). His key area of research is to identify and characterise factors that underpin virus and vector success in agricultural ecosystems.
Dr Trisna Tungadi is a Lecturer in Plant Health at Keele University, UK. She is a member of the Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) Virology Steering Group, and a Board Member at the British Society of Plant Pathology. Prior to starting her research group at Keele, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Professor John Carr’s Plant Virology Lab at the University of Cambridge, UK and in Dr Michelle Fountain’s Entomology Research Group at NIAB (UK). Her research focus is the study of plant responses to viral pathogens and their insect vectors, and how these interactions influence virus transmission.
Dr Dominika Boguszewska-Mankowska
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Dominika Boguszewska-Mankowska has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: 'Advances in potato cultivation’.
Dr Dominika Boguszewska-Mankowska is an Assistant Professor at the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute – National Research Institute (IHAR-PIB), Poland. Dr Boguszewska-Mankowska is also Chairperson of the Agronomy & Physiology Section at the European Association for Potato Research (EAPR). Her research focuses on plant stress physiology and biochemistry and she has been involved in the publication of several research articles.
Dr Teresita D. Amore
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Teresita D. Amore has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: 'Advances in ornamental horticulture’.
Dr Teresita D. Amore is Associate Professor at the Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA. Her main research interests focus on breeding and genetics of orchids and anthurium, tissue culture and floral arts and she has published extensively in these areas. Dr Amore has participated in several projects, including the USDA-NIFA Hatch grant Varietal Improvement of Tropical Ornamentals with Focus on Anthuriums and Dendrobium Orchids for the Hawaii Floriculture Industry (2016-2021) in which she acted as principal investigator. Dr Amore has also previously served as a guest editor for a special issue of Horticulturae (Breeding, Genetics and Genomics of Ornamental Plants).
Dr Goetz Hensel
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Goetz Hensel has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: 'Advances in gene editing of crops’.
Dr Goetz Hensel is a molecular biologist by training. He is the Head of the Centre for Plant Genome Engineering (CPGE) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. His research focuses on developing and applying methods for genetic transformation and gene editing of crop plants, including cereals, sunflowers, and rice, for fundamental research and crop improvement. His interests include crop domestication, chloroplast development and photosynthesis, as well as plant-microbe interactions and molecular farming.
Professor Bernhard Freyer
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Bernhard Freyer has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: 'Optimising rotations to improve soil health and crop yield’.
Dr Freyer served as Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria, where he headed the Institute of Organic Farming from 1998 to 2022. He is currently a member of the Department for Knowledge and Communication Development at the University for Continuing Education Krems (Austria) and Scientific Project Leader at the Institute of Agroecology (Switzerland). He is also affiliated with the African Institute of Plant Nutrition and serves as Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Disaster Risk Management & Food Security Studies, Bahir Dar University (Ethiopia). Internationally recognised for his work on organic and agroecologically-inspired farming systems—especially soil health, crop rotations and bio-based fertilisation—he has held senior roles at FiBL (Switzerland) and was a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota (USA). He authored the chapter on rotations in the Burleigh Dodds Science volume Improving organic crop cultivation (ed. Ulrich Köpke, 2019).
Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro and Dr Oliver Konzock
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro and Dr Oliver Konzock have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: 'Biomass fermentation technologies for production of alternative food proteins: Challenges and opportunities for single-cell protein (SCP) food’.
Dr Ledesma-Amaro is Professor and Academic Lead for Engineering Biology in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, UK. He is also Director of both the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein and the Microbial Food Hub at Imperial College. Dr Ledesma is internationally known for his pioneering research on the use of synthetic biology tools for metabolic engineering of cells to produce a new generation of sustainable, high-value products.
Dr Konzock is a Research Associate in Dr Ledesma-Amaro’s team. His research focuses on harnessing the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce food and lipid products. He is the Chair of the COST Action Network “Accelerating Innovation and Development of European Microbial Foods (Mic2Food)”.
Dr Lydia Burgess-Gamble
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Lydia Burgess-Gamble has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: 'Farming and watershed management: Agriculture, flood management and water quality’.
Dr Lydia Burgess-Gamble is currently Biodiversity Net Gain Strategic Lead at Southern Water, a water utilities company based in the Southeast of England. She was previously a Principal Nature-Based Solutions Specialist at JBA Consulting and, before then, Principal Flood Risk Scientist at the Environment Agency, responsible for the development of the UK’s Natural Flood Management Evidence Directory. Lydia co-authored the Fluvial Chapters included in the International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-based Features Flood Risk Management, published by the US Army Corps of Engineers and widely regarded as representing the international state of the art on the design and implementation of natural and nature-based feature (NNBF) approaches to flood management.
Professor Jonathan Storkey
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Jonathan Storkey has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Managing major weeds of cereals: Advances and case studies’.
Professor Storkey is a Principal Scientist in Agroecology at the world-famous Rothamsted Research in the UK. A highly-cited author, he is internationally-renowned for his expertise in sustainable weed management. He has been a Principal Investigator or Partner in a wide range of UK and EU-funded Research Projects promoting more sustainable agricultural practices, and has been a Plenary Speaker at Symposia organised by the European Weed Research Society, the Weed Science Society of America and the Asia Pacific Weed Science Society.
Dr John E. Bradshaw
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr John E. Bradshaw has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in potato breeding’.
Dr John E. Bradshaw is an Honorary Associate of The James Hutton Institute, UK. He is also Honorary Fellow of the Indian Potato Association and an Honorary Member of the European Association for Research on Plant Breeding, having served as Chairperson of their Section Potatoes from 2000 to 2009. He was Co-Ordinating Editor of the journal Potato Research from 2017 to 2021. His main interests focus on plant breeding and genetics and he has published extensively on the subject.
Dr Dilip Panthee
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Dilip Panthee has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in tomato breeding’.
Dr Dilip Panthee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University, USA. His key research focuses on the development of new tomato lines and cultivars, utilising both conventional and molecular approaches. Dr Panthee’s expertise is in plant breeding, genetics, genomics, QTL mapping, molecular marker development and marker-assisted selection. His tomato breeding program at North Carolina State University employs both conventional and molecular breeding approaches to improve tomato disease resistance, yield, and fruit quality. Dr Panthee has released 13 hybrid tomato cultivars and 19 tomato breeding lines. He has also published over 95 journal articles, 10 book chapters and more than 85 abstracts and research reports.
Professor Geoff Gurr
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Geoff Gurr has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Ecological management of crop insect pests: Challenges and solutions’.
Dr Gurr is Distinguished Professor of Applied Ecology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. With over 200 publications, Professor Gurr is internationally renowned for his research in developing ecologically-based strategies in areas such as pest management in agriculture.
He has been named as Australia’s leading researcher on ‘Insects & Arthropods’ and has won Engagement Australia’s award for Outstanding Research Engagement for work that has been deployed across tens of thousands of farms in Australia and beyond.
Professor Gurr has also held Visiting Professorships at the University of Sydney (Australia) and Lincoln University (New Zealand) as well as at Zhejiang University and Fujian Agriculture ad Forestry University (China). He is also a Past President of the International Organization for Biological Control (Asia-Pacific) and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.
Professor Fabrizio Costa
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Fabrizio Costa has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in apple breeding’.
Professor Fabrizio Costa is Associate Professor of Plant Genetics and Breeding in the Centre for Agriculture, Food and Environment (C3A) at the University of Trento, Italy. Professor Costa is internationally renowned for his research on the genetics of fruit ripening and post-harvest quality. He is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals relevant in the field of plant science and genetics, with a particular focus on horticultural crops. Professor Costa is also editor of an earlier Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing volume: Improving the quality of apples (2024).
Dr Salvatore Galgano and Professor Jos Houdijk
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Salvatore Galgano and Professor Jos Houdijk have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in understanding and optimising gut microbiomes in pigs’.
Dr Salvatore Galgano is a Lecturer at the Monogastric Science Research Centre at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), UK. He is a microbiologist and his key research interests focus on monogastric gut microbiota and its interactions with host health and performance. Dr Galgano is also involved in several research projects and has published numerous articles on monogastric gut microbiota.
Dr Jos Houdijk is a Professor at the Monogastric Science Research Centre at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), UK. He is a nutritionist and his key research interests focuses on the nutritional sensitivity of animal production, health, disease and the environmental footprint of livestock. Professor Houdijk is involved in numerous projects and has contributed over 100 publications to livestock science.
Dr Matthias Kuhnert and Dr Sylvia Vetter
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Matthias Kuhnert and Dr Sylvia Vetter have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Farm carbon calculators: Progress, standards and future trends’.
Dr Kuhnert is an Advanced Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He is a leading expert in environmental modelling, particularly measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems for tracking changes in soil organic carbon in agricultural production. He has published widely in this area and ways of measuring and modelling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from farming. Dr Kuhnert was previously a Research Fellow at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He is participating in a range of research projects such as the EU-funded CIRCASA Project.
Dr Vetter is also an Advanced Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. Like Dr Kuhnert, she is a member of the School’s Environmental Modelling Group. She is noted for her research focusing on modelling GHG emissions from agriculture and the potential effectiveness of different mitigation options. Dr Vetter was involved in developing the Cool Farm Tool, one of the leading carbon calculation tools used by UK farmers in particular. She was previously Chair of Meteorology at the Technical University of Dresden.
Professor Guy Robinson
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Guy Robinson has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Farming and land use change to achieve net zero: Achieving multi-functional landscapes’.
Dr Robinson is Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is also a LISA Fellow in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, UK. As an internationally-renowned expert on the environmental aspects of rural development around the globe, he has held positions at the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, Kingston and South Australia as well as visiting positions in 18 universities across Canada, the UK, India, China, Australia and New Zealand. Professor Robinson is Emeritus Editor of the leading journal Land Use Policy which he edited for 12 years. He is Editor-in-Chief of Research in Globalization and on the editorial board of the journals Geographical Journal and Geographical Research. His over 200 publications include co-editing the Handbook on the Globalisation of Agriculture.
Dr Juliana Bonin Ferreira
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Juliana Bonin Ferreira has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Understanding, preventing and managing enteric bacterial pathogens of pigs’.
Dr Juliana Bonin Ferreira is an Associate Clinical Professor of Swine Health and Production Medicine at North Carolina State University, USA. Her research interests include swine health and production, infectious diseases and epidemiology. Dr Bonin Ferreira has published several journal articles on the subject in leading journals such as The Canadian Veterinary Journal, American Journal of Veterinary Research and the Journal of Swine Health and Production.
Professor Kurt A. Rosentrater
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Kurt A. Rosentrater has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Improving the processing quality of wheat’.
Dr Kurt A. Rosentrater is a Professor in the Departments of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University, USA. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University, Polytech Montpellier and ISARA-Lyon, France, where he teaches storage, processing and sustainability of grain and food systems. Professor Rosentrater has published three books and several hundred conference and journal papers on a variety of cereal grain topics.
Professor Stephen Wegulo
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Wegulo has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in integrated wheat disease management’.
Dr Stephen Wegulo is a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and Extension Specialist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His expertise is in the areas of epidemiology and disease management. Professor Wegulo has authored or co-authored 79 refereed journal papers, six book chapters and collectively more than 500 Extension and other non-refereed publications. He is currently an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Crop Protection and has previously served as an editor of three other refereed journals.
Professor Donagh Berry
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Donagh Berry has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Optimising breeding of dairy cows: Leveraging genetics for more sustainable production’.
Professor Donagh Berry is a Senior Principal Research Officer in quantitative genetics at Teagasc, Ireland as well as holding several (inter)national professorship appointments. He is strongly engaged in third-level education and extension to a wide range of different stakeholders. He has published over 370 journal publications mostly relating to dairy cow breeding. Working across species, his research interests are in phenotyping strategies, breeding goal development and deployment, genetic evaluations, and genomic predictions.
Dr Felix Herzog
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Felix Herzog has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Improving biodiversity monitoring of agricultural landscapes’.
Dr Felix Herzog is currently Head of a team of 50 in the Agricultural Landscape and Biodiversity Research Group at Agroscope, Switzerland’s leading centre for agricultural research. With 25 years’ experience and over 100 publications, Dr Herzog is internationally renowned for his research on understanding and enhancing the critical role of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Agriculture for Sustainable Development, and has participated in a number of major EU research projects relating to biodiversity and agriculture.
Professor María Cambra-López and Dr Yang Zhao
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor María Cambra-López and Dr Yang Zhao have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in precision poultry farming technologies’.
Dr María Cambra-López is an Associate Professor in the Animal Science Department at Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain. She is recognised for her work in animal production technology and precision nutrition of non-ruminants. She is author and co-author of more than 137 original scientific documents, including research papers, conference papers and book chapters. Professor Cambra-López has received several awards from international academic and research bodies in recognition of her research contributions. She is a member of the European Association of Precision Livestock Farming (EA-PLF). She coordinates a national initiative to connect researchers in the field of PLF across Spain, as well as the training of students and professionals in this area.
Dr Yang Zhao is an Associate Professor in the Animal Science Department at the University of Tennessee, USA. He is recognised for his work in smart poultry farming and has had his work published in over 150 scientific articles. Dr Zhao has been in Chair and member roles of several professional committees of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and is an Associate Editor of the Transactions of the ASABE. He is also the lead editor and co-editor of several Special Issues published in Animals.
Dr Regiane R. Santos
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Regiane R. Santos has agreed to edit our forthcoming title: 'Advances in improving animal feed safety'.
Dr Regiane Santos is an Innovation Coordinator and Research Scientist based at Schothorst Feed Research, The Netherlands. Dr Santos specialises in mycotoxins and their effects on gut health and reproduction. She is member of the World’s Poultry Science Association, International Society for Mycotoxicology and the Society for Mycotoxin Research. Dr Santos is also editor of the book Mycotoxins: From Field to Feed and has contributed to over 160 publications on animal nutrition and reproduction.
Dr Nico van Belzen
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Nico van Belzen has agreed to edit our forthcoming title: 'Developing alternative animal feed ingredients: Key issues and challenges'.
Dr Nico van Belzen is Director General at ScienceConsult, The Netherlands. He is also former Director General of the International Dairy Federation (IDF), Belgium. He has occupied senior roles in both industry and research organisations, both as Head of the Research and Analysis department at the ingredients division of Campina and as Executive Director of the European Branch of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI). Dr van Belzen is editor of two earlier Burleigh Dodds Science volumes: Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 1: Safety, quality and sustainability; and Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 2: Milk composition, genetics and breeding (both published in 2017). He is also editor of an upcoming Burleigh Dodds Science volume: Alternative animal feed products.
Professor Lisa Collins
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Lisa Collins has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in precision pig farming technologies‘.
Professor Lisa Collins is Pro Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation at the University of Surrey, UK. Prior to this role, she held a variety of leadership roles at the University of Leeds, UK, including Academic Director of the National Pig Centre. Professor Collins is recognised for her work in animal health and welfare epidemiology as well as the development and application of smarter agricultural systems through multi-disciplinary approaches including technology development, in-field testing, systems modelling and data analytics.
Dr Oliver Körner and Professor Gundula Proksch
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Oliver Körner and Professor Gundula Proksch have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in controlled environment agriculture‘.
Dr Körner is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Department of Next-Generation Horticultural Systems (HORTSYS) at the world-renowned Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), Germany. He leads the HORTSYS 2 Research Group and is Acting Head of the PA HORTSYS Research Group. Dr Körner is internationally known for his expertise in the controlled environment cultivation of horticultural crops, particularly modelling plant-environment interactions in protected cultivation.
Dr Proksch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture within the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington, USA, where she is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture. She is Founding Director of the Circular City + Living Systems Lab (CSSL), an interdisciplinary group applying circular economy principles to building and city design. Professor Proksch is Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation-funded CITIFOODS Project which is investigating the broader development of aquaponic systems in urban environments.
Professor Bob Rees and Professor Jørgen Olesen
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Bob Rees and Professor Jørgen Olesen have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Agriculture, land use and the path to net zero‘.
Dr Bob Rees is Professor in Agriculture and Climate Change and Head of the Carbon Management Centre at SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College), UK. With over 150 published papers, Professor Rees is internationally renowned for his research on soil carbon sequestration, agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation, nutrient cycling and ways agriculture can adapt to climate change. He has coordinated or participated in major international research programmes such as the EU Legume-Futures Project and the European Commission Joint Soils Programme. Professor Rees is also Speciality Chief Editor for the Frontiers journal Climate Smart Food Systems and Associate Editor for Soil Use and Management.
Dr Jørgen Eivind Olesen is Professor in Climate Change and Agriculture and Head of the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is also an Adjunct Professor at both the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and Ganzu Agricultural University (China). Professor Olesen has an international reputation for his research on the effect of agriculture on the environment and how environmental change affects agroecosystems. He has contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and has participated in a wide range of EU research projects focussed on understanding and reducing GHG emissions for agriculture and developing more climate-resilient agricultural systems. He is Vice-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for FACCE-JPI which coordinates research on sustainable agriculture, food security and climate change impacts.
Dr Nico van Belzen
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Nico van Belzen has agreed to edit our forthcoming title: 'Alternative animal feed ingredients'.
Dr Nico van Belzen is Director General at ScienceConsult, The Netherlands. He is also former Director General of the International Dairy Federation (IDF), Belgium. He has occupied senior roles in both industry and research organisations, both as Head of the Research and Analysis department at the ingredients division of Campina and as Executive Director of the European Branch of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI). Dr van Belzen is editor of two earlier Burleigh Dodds Science volumes: Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 1: Safety, quality and sustainability and Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 2: Milk composition, genetics and breeding (both published in 2017).
Professor Ruben Sakrabani
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Ruben Sakrabani has agreed to edit our forthcoming title: ‘Optimising bio-based fertilisation for a more sustainable agriculture’.
Dr Ruben Sakrabani is Professor of Soil Chemistry in the Centre for Soil, Agrifood and biosciences at Cranfield University, UK. He has an international reputation particularly for his research on the nutrient dynamics, resource use efficiency and reliability of organic soil amendments such as compost, manure, slurry sludge, biochar and digestates. Professor Sakrabani is an Associate Editor of Soil Use and Management. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) responsible for research funding in environmental science.
Professor Daniel Berckmans and Dr Tomás Norton
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Daniel Berckmans and Dr Tomás Norton have agreed to edit our forthcoming title: ‘Advances in precision dairy and beef farming technologies’.
Professor Daniel Berckmans has been associated with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) for 40 years where he was Head of the M3-BIORES (Measure, Model and Manage Bioresponses) Division for over 20 years as a full professor. His team is widely regarded as a world leader in precision livestock farming, producing over 350 publications and over 450 conference papers, with 17 new products brought to market in collaboration with industrial partners and 20 patents submitted. He has coordinated a number of EU research projects and is co-founder of two spin-off companies from his research. In addition to many PhDs produced within M3-BIORES, he has been a member of 64 PhD committees in 9 different countries and promoted over 200 Masters theses. In 2003 he started the European Conferences on Precision Livestock Farming (ECPLF) which reached its 10th anniversary in 2022. Professor Berckmans has also been appointed Adjunct Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee to help develop precision livestock farming research in the USA. He is also member of the Scientific Council of the World Farmers Organization who represent a billion farmers worldwide. Reuters ranked Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as the 7th most innovative university worldwide, being the first non-US university in the list. Professor Berckmans is also editor of Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing’s previous volume Advances in precision livestock farming (published in 2022).
Dr Tomás Norton is Associate Professor of Sustainable Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) in the Division of Animal and Human and Health Engineering and research group of M3-BIORES, at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He has co-authored over 100 publications, over 50 conference proceedings and 10 book chapters. Dr Norton is also Chair of Section II and Technical Board of the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. He is Associate Editor of the Cell Press journal Heliyon (Agriculture), Frontiers of Veterinary Science (Animal Behavior and Welfare) and Frontiers of Animal Science (Precision Livestock Farming). Dr Norton is also Series editor of the Springer Nature Book Series: Smart Animal Production and the Springer Nature Encyclopedia of Smart Agricultural Technologies. He is also contributor to Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing’s previous volume Advances in precision livestock farming (published in 2022).
Dr Henry van den Brand
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Henry van den Brand has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Future perspectives in broiler rearing: Incorporating the broiler point of view’.
Dr van den Brand is an Associate Professor of the Adaptation Physiology Group at Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands. His research is mainly focused on the early life of poultry, with special interest in breeder management, incubation, early nutrition and thermoregulation. The aim of his research is to improve or maintain poultry health, welfare and resilience. Dr van den Brand is also a contributor to our previously published title Embryo development and hatchery practice in poultry production (2023).
Professor Richard Oliver
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Richard Oliver has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Global trends in pesticide resistance‘.
Professor Oliver was formerly John Curtin Distinguished Professor in the Centre for Crop Disease Management at Curtin University, Australia. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. Amongst numerous achievements, he has been a Visiting Professor at Wageningen University in The Netherlands as well as a Past President of the British Society for Plant Pathology.
He has also recently completed editing the 6th edition of Agrios' Plant Pathology, widely regarded as a standard reference in its subject. Professor Oliver has edited two previous books for Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing: Integrated disease management of wheat and barley (2018) and Achieving durable disease resistance in cereals (2021).
Professor Sjoerd W. Duiker and Dr Andy Clark
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Sjoerd W. Duiker and Dr Andy Clark have agreed to edit our forthcoming title: ‘Cover crops for sustainable soil management’.
Dr Sjoerd Willem Duiker is Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics at Penn State University, USA. He has made significant contributions to both research and extension in developing more sustainable soil management practices in such areas as no-till systems, the use of cover crops, mulches and more diverse crop rotations. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Northeast Cover Crops Council which brings together universities, farmers, government agencies and others to optimise cover crop use in the north-eastern states of the USA. Professor Duiker is also a co-editor of the forthcoming Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing collection 'Weed management in Conservation Agriculture systems'.
Dr Andy Clark recently retired as National Communications Director of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program. He led the communications arm of the SARE Program that was instrumental in developing and disseminating sustainable crop and livestock management practices in the United States. As Communications Director, Dr Clark oversaw the development of more than 40 publications, including editing the Third Edition of the SARE publication ‘Managing Cover Crops Profitably’, widely regarded as the standard reference for farmers, agronomists and others interested in adoption of cover crops on farms in the United States.
Professor Emerit Jay Stratton Noller
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Emerit Jay Stratton Noller has agreed to edit our forthcoming title: ‘Achieving sustainable cultivation of hemp’.
Dr Jay Stratton Noller is Founder and Former Director of the Global Hemp Innovation Center at Oregon State University, USA, which was launched in 2019. Now retired, Dr Noller is also Professor Emerit of Oregon State University.
From 2011 to 2023, Dr Noller also led hemp research for the State of Oregon, has co-authored legislative bills and administrative rules for USA, Washington and Oregon hemp industry, has advised several countries on hemp policies, and has developed collaborative research agreements and partnerships on hemp at over 20 institutions worldwide.
Dr Sigrid Netherer and Dr Maartje Klapwijk
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Sigrid Netherer and Dr Maartje Klapwijk have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘The European spruce bark beetle – Connecting ecology, human aspects and practical forest management’.
Dr Netherer is a Senior Scientist in the Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection (IFFF) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. She has an international reputation for her expertise in risk assessment of bark beetles and other forest insect pests.
Dr Klapwijk is a Senior Lecturer in Forest Entomology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. She is known for her research on population dynamics of native and invasive species affecting forests. She is Co-ordinator of the Entomology of the Research Group at the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).
Professor Jeanette Norton, Professor Josh Schimel and Professor Zoë Lindo
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Jeanette Norton, Professor Josh Schimel and Professor Zoë Lindo have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Measuring and assessing the biological health of soils’.
Dr Norton is Professor of Soil Microbiology in the Department of Plants, Soils and Climate at Utah State University, USA. She is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America. Professor Norton is internationally known for her research on ways of analysing the soil microbiome, including its role in nitrogen and carbon cycling.
Dr Schimel is Professor of Soil Ecology in the Faculty of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University of California-Santa Barbara, USA. Professor Schimel is Co-Editor in Chief of Soil Biology and Biochemistry. His research focuses on role of soil microbes in controlling ecosystem-scale processes.
Dr Lindo is Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Professor Lindo is Co-Chair of the FAO International Initiative on Soil Biodiversity (NETSOB) and Editor-in-Chief of Pedobiologia: Journal Of Soil Ecology as well as being an acknowledged expert on soil biodiversity and its impact on ecosystem function.
Dr Rob Theelen
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Rob Theelen has agreed to edit our forthcoming title: ‘Chemical contaminants in food: understanding and managing risks’.
In a distinguished career, Dr Theelen has worked as a toxicological scientist, policy officer and risk assessor for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, and the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) as well for the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). From 2002 to 2017 Dr Theelen was also Technical Assistant to the Chair of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food.
He is involved in a number of EU programmes such as the Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF) Initiative and the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange (TAIEX) Platform established by the European Commission to support best practice in areas such as food safety amongst EU member state governments. He manages the Food Safety Portal which provides information on relevant EU legislation and calculation tools for assessing exposure risk for those involved in chemical risk management and assessment.
Professor John Webster
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor John Webster has agreed to edit our forthcoming title: ‘Achieving net-zero dairy farming’.
Dr Webster is Emeritus Professor in Animal Husbandry at the University of Bristol, UK. He established the Animal Welfare and Behaviour Group at the University of Bristol, one of the largest and most highly-regarded of its kind in the world, and was a founder member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council which pioneered the Five Freedoms for farm animals. Professor Webster is editor of an earlier Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing volume: Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 3: Dairy herd management and welfare (published in 2017). Other key books written or edited by Professor Webster include Understanding the Dairy Cow and Animal Husbandry Regained: the place of farm animals in sustainable agriculture.
Professor Gerrit Hoogenboom
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Gerrit Hoogenboom has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Current crop models: State-of-the-art and future developments’.
Dr Hoogenboom is Professor and Preeminent Scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida, USA. With over 30 years’ experience and over 500 peer-reviewed publications, he is acknowledged as a global expert in crop modelling. He currently coordinates development of the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT), one of the leading crop modelling systems. Professor Hoogenboom also co-authored the chapter on DSSAT in Burleigh Dodds Science’s successful 2019 title: Advances in crop modelling for a sustainable agriculture (ed. Ken Boote). Professor Hoogenboom is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Agricultural Science.
Dr Agnes van den Pol-van Dasselaar
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr Agnes van den Pol-van Dasselaar has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in grassland science and management‘.
Dr Agnes van den Pol-van Dasselaar is Professor of Grasslands and Grazing at Aeres University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. Prior to her appointment of this role in 2015, Dr van den Pol-van Dasselaar had a distinguished career spanning over 20 years at Wageningen Livestock Research, in which she held several positions, including Head of Grass and Forage Systems. Dr van den Pol-van Dasselaar recently co-edited Grassland Use in Europe (2020) and has contributed to over 200 journal articles on grazing, ecosystem services, grass and forage management, as well as greenhouse gas emissions and sustainable production systems. She is also the current President of the European Grassland Federation and Member of its Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr John Stafford
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Dr John Stafford has agreed to edit a new edition of his highly-successful book: Precision agriculture for sustainability, published by Burleigh Dodds Science in 2018. Formerly a scientist at the internationally-renowned Silsoe Research Institute, Dr Stafford is well known as a leader in precision agriculture technologies. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers, former Co-Editor of the journal Precision Agriculture and past President of the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA).
Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Contaminants in agricultural soils: Challenges and solutions’.
Dr Naidu is Professor in the College of Engineering Science and Environment and Founding Director of the Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER) at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is also Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Chief Scientist of the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (crcCARE). Professor Naidu is also Chair of the UN FAO International Network on Soil Pollution (INSOP) and Chair of the CleanUp Conference Series.
Amongst other honours he received the 2022 Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award and Medal and the 2023 European Geosciences Union Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal. His election as a Fellow of Australian Academy of Science Technology and Engineering, New Zealand Academy of Science and Indian Academy of Agricultural Science reflects his outstanding scientific contribution. With over 850 journal publications, he is a Web of Science Globally Highly-Cited Researcher in soil contamination and remediation research.
Professor Laurie Drinkwater
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Laurie Drinkwater has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘The science and practice of agroecology: Pathway to sustainable food systems'.
Dr Laurie Drinkwater is a Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University, USA. Professor Drinkwater is internationally renowned for her research on soil nutrient cycling processes in agroecosystems. In 2018 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Organic Agriculture from the Agronomy Society of America. Professor Drinkwater is co-Editor of the journal Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. Her full publication list can be found here.
Professor Cristina Alamprese, Dr Yves Nys, Professor Yoshinori Mine and Dr Vincent Guyonnet
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce the following team has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in improving the safety and quality of eggs'.
Lead editor: Professor Cristina Alamprese
Associate editors: Dr Yves Nys, Professor Yoshinori Mine and Dr Vincent Guyonnet
Dr Cristina Alamprese is Full Professor of Food Science and Technology in the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy. Professor Alamprese is current Chair of Working Group 4 (Quality of Eggs and Egg Products) of the World Poultry Science Association (WPSA). With over 70 indexed publications, she is internationally known for her research on food design as well as monitoring and optimising quality in food processing operations.
Dr Yves Nys is former Research Director for the Poultry Unit at INRAE, France. As a scientist, he studied calcium metabolism in hens (eggshell quality and fabric), mineral nutrition and egg quality (nutritional value and biological activity of egg proteins). With over 200 publications, Dr Nys is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on optimising the nutrition of laying hens. The recipient of a number of awards for his research, he has served as Vice-President of the WPSA, president of the European Federation and has coordinated two major EU research projects on egg quality.
Dr Yoshinori Mine is Full Professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph, Canada. Professor Mine is on the editorial board of a number of leading journals. Winner of a number of awards, he is internationally renowned for his contribution to research on egg science and the nutraceutical properties of eggs for human health. He has published 5 books, 37 book chapters, 15 review articles and 182 papers in peer-reviewed international journals.
Dr Vincent Guyonnet is Managing Director of FFI Consulting in Canada, advising the poultry sector on key topics such as animal welfare, sustainability and the marketing of eggs. A distinguished career spanning both industry and research includes representing the global egg sector with the World Organisation for Animal Health (founded as OIE), the FAO and World Bank. Dr Guyonnet is also the Global Coordinator for Poultry health and Production with the organisation World Veterinary Education in Production Animal Health (WVEPAH).
This new volume reviews recent research on key aspects of safety, quality and sustainability in poultry layer production systems. It builds on the successful two-volume collection which Burleigh Dodds Science published in 2017: Achieving sustainable production of eggs (ed. Julie Roberts; Vol 1: Safety and quality; Vol 2: Welfare and sustainability).
Emerita Professor Carolyn Sachs and Dr Paige Castellanos
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Emerita Professor Carolyn Sachs and Dr Paige Castellanos have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Women and smallholder farming: Addressing global inequities in agriculture’.
Dr Carolyn Sachs is Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. She serves on an expert panel to the United Nations Programme on Gender, Water and Sanitation and is involved in several extension and outreach programmes, including the Pennsylvania Women’s Agricultural Network (PAWAgN), in which she provides agricultural, entrepreneurship and leadership training. Emerita Professor Sachs has held previous positions as Visiting Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia and Visiting Professor at the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome, Italy. She has published widely on gender and agriculture, contributing books, chapters and journal articles, and in 2020, she co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture with Dr Paige Castellanos and other notable researchers.
Dr Paige Castellanos is Senior Manager of Gender Justice and Inclusion at Oxfam America, USA. Before moving into her new role in 2022, Dr Castellanos was previously Director for the Gender Equity through Agriculture Research and Education (GEARE) Initiative at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. From 2016-2019, Dr Castellanos acted as Project Manager for the Women in Agriculture Network (WAgN): Honduras – a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve women’s participation in the horticulture value chain in Honduras. She has published widely on gender, empowerment and agriculture and co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture alongside Emerita Professor Carolyn Sachs and other notable researchers in 2020.
Lesley Stubbings and Kate Phillips
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Lesley Stubbings and Kate Phillips have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in sheep production‘.
Now an independent consultant, Lesley Stubbings is a former Principal Sheep Consultant with ADAS in the UK. She is recipient of both an OBE from the UK Government and the George Hedley Memorial Award from the UK National Sheep Association for her outstanding contribution to the British sheep sector. She is an Honorary Life Member of the Sheep Veterinary Society and a leading figure in the Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) Group which is acknowledged as a world leader in integrated parasite control.
Kate Phillips is an independent consultant for the UK sheep sector and former Principal Livestock Consultant with ADAS. She is also a Regional Advisor for the Moredun Foundation and was a Senior Lecturer at Harper Adams University teaching ruminant production and nutrition. She is widely recognised for her expertise in aspects of sheep nutrition, welfare and health issues such as lameness and scab.
Professor Shashi Sharma and Dr Minshad Ansari
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Shashi Sharma and Dr Minshad Ansari have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: Advances in bioprotection of plants against diseases.
Dr Shashi Sharma is President of the World BioProtection Forum and Adjunct Professor in the Harry Butler Institute at Murdoch University, Australia.
Previous roles he has held include Professor and Chair in Biosecurity and Food Security at Murdoch University; Director Plant Biosecurity and Chief Plant Health Manager at the Department of Agriculture and Food, Government of Western Australia; Founder and Co-Director of the Australia-China Centre for Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management in Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry, a joint centre of Murdoch University and Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China; Professor and Head of the Division of Nematology at the Indian Agriculture Research Institute; and Scientist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
Dr Sharma is recipient of several awards and fellowships including CGIAR’s (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) Excellence in Science Award.
Dr Minshad Ansari is CEO of Bionema, a leading UK company developing new biocontrol products. He has over 25 years’ experience in bioprotection research, development and commercialisation, particularly in the area of entomopathogenic fungi and nematodes. Dr Ansari is Founder and Chair of the World Bioprotection Forum (WBF).
Amongst other activities, WBF organises the annual World BioProtection Summit and Awards, a key event promoting collaboration between academia and industry to further progress in the sector. Dr Ansari is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University (UK).
Professor Rosa Maria Mosquera-Losada, Dr Ladislau Martin, Professor Anastasia Pantera and Dr Allison Morrill Chatrchyan
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Maria Rosa Mosquera-Losada, Dr Ladislau Martin, Professor Anastasia Pantera and Dr Allison Chatrchyan have agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: ‘Advances in temperate agroforestry‘.
Dr Rosa Maria Mosquera-Losada is Distinguished Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Professor Mosquera-Losada is a former President of the European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF) and an Associate Editor of Agroforestry Systems.
Dr Ladislau Martin is a Senior Scientist Researcher at Embrapa, Brazil. Dr Martin is a co-Chair of the Croplands Research Group of the Global Alliance for Greenhouse Gas Research in Agriculture.
Professor Anastasia Pantera is Vice-President of the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Management at the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. Professor Pantera is an Associate Editor of Agroforestry Systems.
Dr Allison Morrill Chatrchyan is a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, USA. Dr Chatrchyan leads the Climate Smart Farming and Climate Smart Solutions Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
The new book builds on a previous volume published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing in 2019: Agroforestry for sustainable agriculture (ed. Professor María Mosquera-Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and Dr Ravi Prabhu, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya).