University of FloridaDepartment of Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Biocomplexity Engineering group seminars

Spring 2026 Schedule
Tuesdays 2:00 -3:00 pm.
Hybrid sessions: Please come in-person for coffee and cookies at Frazier Rogers Hall 122 (Seminar Room downstairs), or virtual at this ZOOM link.

Seminars Coordinator: Isabella Plumier, Ph.D. student

 

January

13

Dr. Gopal Kakani

Distinguished Professor, UF/ABE, USA

Establishing Validation Sites for Field-Level Emissions Quantification from Grain Sorghum in Southern Great Plains

20

Dr. Alberto San Bautista

Full Professor in Agricultural Production Department, Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain

Satellite-Based Modeling of Rice Productivity and Agronomic Management for Sustainable Crop Optimization

27

Dr. Bruce Welt

Professor, UF/ABE, USA

Achieving circularity with all plastics (and more) with Regenerative Robust Gasification

February

3

Dr. Miguel Campo-Bescós

Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Spain

Soil Sensing for Precision and Automated Irrigation: Opportunities and Challenges

10

TBD

TBD

TBD

17

Dr. Mathieu Javaux

Full Professor, UCLouvain, Belgium

How Soil Properties Shape Plant and Ecosystem Response to Drought

March

3

Dr. Rafael Pimentel

Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of Córdoba, Spain

Snow hydrology in Mediterranean mountains: from the plot to the global scale

10

Dr. Juan Manuel Restrepo-Flórez

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, UF, USA

Engineering Sustainability: Models, Optimization, and Decision-Making Under Complexity

24

Dr. Guilhem De Hoe

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department, UF, USA

Polymeric additives and biodegradable polymers

31

Dr. Rachata Muneepeerakul

Professor, UF/ABE, USA

Trade-off between short-term resilience and long-term sustainability: Analysis of a minimalistic stochastic model

April

7

Dr. Vivek Sharma

Assistant Professor, UF/ABE, USA

Nitrate leaching risk in agroecosystems under long-term hydroclimatic variability

14

Dr. Mason Mathews

Assistant Professor, Florida State University, USA

TBA

21

Dr. Amirpouyan Nejadhashemi

Research Foundation Professor, Michigan State University, USA

Integrated PFAS Modeling for Environmental Remediation

28

Dr. Rafael Giménez

Associate Professor, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain

Experimental investigation of concentrated flow erosion processes

 

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