Articles by Véronique Bellon Maurel

Véronique Bellon Maurel, agricultural engineer, graduated from Agroparistech Paris, France) and has got a PhD in sensors for smart farming (University of Toulouse). She is working at INRAE, as the Deputy-head of Mathnum department and as the director of #DigitAg, the Digital Agriculture Convergence Lab, a unique institute financially supported by the french governement (France2030 program). #DigitAg gathers 16 public and private partners, 30 research units (+600 researchers). #DigitAg is based on interdisciplinary research bringing together social sciences, digital sciences and agronomists to build the academic foundations of responsible digital agriculture in France and in southern countries. In 2020, #DigitAg created the Occitanum Living-Lab (Occitanie Digital Agroecology), which aims to boost co-creation and use of digital technologies in agriculture to accelerate the development of agroecology and local food. She is involved as WP leader in the european project CODECS, led by G Brunori (Unv. of Pisa, IT), started late 2022. She is one of the co-author of a white book on « agriculture and digital technologies », published in 2022. She is the laureate of various awards for applied research of which most prestigious French Academy of Sciences – IMT « Grand Prix » (2010). She is currently a member-elected of the French Academy of Technologies.