Contact Dr Michail Giannitsopoulos

Areas of expertise

  • Computing, Simulation & Modelling
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Natural Capital

Background

Michail holds a BSc in Agriculture and an MSc in Soil Resources Management from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His PhD was carried out at Cranfield and determined the effect of different conservation tillage systems on the agronomic, environmental and economic performance of a wheat and oilseed rape rotation in the UK.

Current activities

Michail's previous work has focused on bio-economic modelling and whole system valuation of arable, agroforestry and tree-only systems. He was part of the EU AGFORWARD project (www.agforward.eu), working with 26 organisations across 14 countries. Michail has also been involved in the NERC-funded research translation project, where a grassland tool was developed, to be used in learning and decision support with students, advisors and farmers. It described the effect of nitrogen application and cutting intervals on annual yields of green leaf and total dry matter from grass in England and Wales. Michail was also part of the UKRI-Innovate UK funded 'Data-led soil management' project, with the aim to improve tea management on smallholder farms in Kenya. The project brought together past tea modelling work completed by Cranfield University in East Africa, and incorporated nitrogen dynamics in tea simulations. Currently Michail is part of the European project AGROMIX (AGROforestry and MIXed farming systems), with the aim to deliver participatory research to drive the transition to resilient and efficient land use in Europe.

Publications

Articles In Journals