Team

Emilio Gil

Emilio Gil Moya is Full Professor (accredited) of the Department of Agri-Food Engineering and Biotechnology of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Director of Agricultural Mechanization Unit. Professor at PhD program in agriculture and forestry at the University of Turin, in Italy. Project Coordinator of the INNOSETA project that is part of the European Horizon 2020 R&D program. He has been advisor to different national and international research bodies and institutes, as well as to the Ministry of Agriculture in the implementation of Sustainable Use of Pesticides, and author of the Manual of Inspections of application equipment. Academic member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors. He is the first agricultural engineer in Europe to enter this academic institution.

Emilio Gil has also been a professor at Cornell University, in the United States, and is author of more than 50 scientific articles in international journals and more than 200 technical and popular articles, as well as different books in the field of engineering agri-food. He is an editor and expert reviewer of scientific journals in the sector and has given numerous international conferences. Member of different organizations in the field of agri-food engineering, the researcher has received different awards, such as the Wine Research Award Tecnovid (Zaragoza) in 2002, the 2002 award from the Centro y Canarias Agronomists Association and the award for the best doctoral thesis (accesit) Fertiberia in 2004. President of the international Award of FIMA and president of AESAVE (Asociación Española de Sanidad Vegetal).He has been director of the Aragon Government office in Brussels (2016) and member of the expert group "Ejea advances" for the management of the COVID-19 crisis in Ejea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza).

Professor Gil has given more than 60 invited lectures in all the countries of the EU and most of the countries of the American continent. He is also the author of the books Zarpazos en el Alma (Ed. Los libros del Gato Negro, 2017), Banda de música de Rivas - Conmemoración de un siglo y cuarto de andanzas musicales (Ed. DPZ, 2008), Historia del socialismo y sindicalismo en Rivas (Ed. DPZ, 2010) i Días de Campo (2019).

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Enric Armengol

Agricultural Engineer (UPC) and Executive MBA (EADA). He has a solid experience in the field of marketing and sales in the agricultural sector, assuming increasing responsibilities to management positions in multinationals of the agricultural machinery sector. Professional with strategic vision, capacity for negotiation, to establish interpersonal relationships, and for problem solving. He has extensive experience in the management and dynamization of work teams, as well as in the management of economic resources.

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Jordi Llop

PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the UPC, Master in Business Administration and Management (UPC), Agricultural Engineer from the University of Lleida (UdL), Agricultural Technical Engineer (UPC). Researcher at the Agrarian Mechanization Unit specialized in the study and evaluation of spraying application techniques on every type of crop. Associate professor at EEABB - UPC in the subjects of agricultural mechanization and engines.