Ph.D. Student

Giulio Calderone

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Phone

+39 3286445310

E-mail

giulio.calderone01@unipa.it

Orc-ID

https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5076-1520

Location

Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4

Profile

- Postgraduate internship at the tropical fruit growing experimental station IHSM La Mayora CSIC-UMA, Malaga, Spain;

- Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurship and Quality of Agri-Food Systems “Sustainable management of agro-zootechnical enterprise”, Final Grade:110/110 with honors;

- Master’s thesis: Sustainable indoor and controlled heliciculture farming system and effects on slime production;

- Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Final Grade:107/110;

- Erasmus+ at Aleksandro Stulginskio universitetas Kaunas, Lithuania.

Expertise

Precision and digital farming;

Sustainable management of agro-zootechnical enterprise;

Infrared instrumentation for the qualitative analysis of milk and use of flow cell instruments for the analysis of somatic cell content such as Combifoss 7 (Milkoscan 7 + Fossomatic DC) and Bactoscan for the determination of the total bacterial load; Identification of tropical plant cultivars through laboratory activities; DNA extraction, PCR, fragment analyzer (Beckman Coulter) etc.

Advisor

Professor Pietro Catania                     

Co-advisor

Dr. Carlo Greco

Thesis topics

Evaluation of multispectral data acquired by the UAV platform

Research interests

Precision agriculture;

Proximal, remote sensing and GIS;

Agricultural Engineering; Plant protection drones.

Link to publications