Thomas Bartzanas, is Director of Research in the Center for Research and Technology – HELLAS (CERTH) / Institute of Bio-Economy and Agritechnology. He is an agricultural engineer with a PhD (on 2004) on environmental control of agricultural structures. His research area is focused on the application of precision agricultural technologies (sensors, automation and ICT tools) for sustainable agriculture, systems analysis and modelling in agriculture, controlled environment agriculture (greenhouses, livestock storage systems) and environmental assessment of agricultural operations.He has participated as a Researcher or/and project manager, or/and coordinator in 40 research projects. He has 250 publications (46 peer reviewed Journals) 5 chapters in books and more than 200 participations in national and international conference.
He has co-edited a Book for Springer, his h-index is 15 and he has 1350 citations. Thomas has been invited to give 6 key-note speeches around on Structured Agricultural Production Systems. He is the Greek representative member in Animal Task Force (EU), and member of the EIP focus group for Circular Horticulture. Thomas is the President of the Hellenic Society of Agricultural Engineers, he is the national representative and coordinator of the Greek Innovation Platform for Agrofood, vice chair in the industrial Greek Food4Life platform representing the academic and research organisations and member of the Regional Innovation Council of Thessaly.