Christos Cavalaris

University of Thessaly
Greece

Dr. Chris Cavalaris is an Agricultural Engineer working as a Teaching and Research Associate at the Department of Agriculture, Crop Production & Rural Environment of University of Thessaly in Greece. His expertise covers the subject of Sustainable Farm Mechanization through the topics of: Conservation agriculture / Precision agriculture / Farm machinery management / Assessment of energy and carbon fluxes in agriculture and / environmental protection by the optimum use of Pesticide application equipment. Lately he has also worked a lot with drone remote sensing and spraying. He has been engaged for over 25 years in numerous national and international research projects and has over 100 publications in international and national peer reviewed scientific journals and conferences. He is the President of the Hellenic Association for Promotion of Conservation Agriculture (HACA), member of the European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) and a board member of the Hellenic Society of Agricultural Engineers (EGME).