Fully Funded PhD Positions in Digital Agriculture, Remote Sensing, and Sustainable Farming at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Italy

Three fully funded PhD positions are open at the Scuola di Dottorato Agrisystem, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Piacenza, Italy). The research themes focus on agrivoltaics , digital agriculture , artificial intelligence , remote sensing , carbon farming , and climate-smart agriculture . Available topics include smart agrivoltaic systems with integrated agro-energy modeling and control strategies; digital agriculture and AI for monitoring, management, machine learning, and data analytics; ...

Virginia Tech’s Agroecosystem Modeling Lab is recruiting a highly motivated PhD student for a fully funded USDA-NIFA research project starting in Spring 2027. The project focuses on agricultural diversification practices, especially cover cropping and crop rotation, and their effects on crop yield, soil health, and soil biogeochemical cycling. Research methods include meta-analysis, process-based agroecosystem modeling (such as DSSAT, APSIM, and DNDC), artificial intelligence, and large geospati...

Postdoctoral Research Associate opportunity in Crop Systems Modeling and Data Analytics at Iowa State University (Department of Agronomy, USA). The research focus is on advancing sustainable crop production by integrating APSIM crop systems modeling , remote sensing , data analytics , and predictive agriculture to improve productivity, nitrogen management, and environmental performance in U.S. corn-soybean systems. This is a strong fit for candidates with interests in Agriculture , Environmental...

EEAD-CSIC (CSIC) in Zaragoza, Spain is advertising a postdoctoral position funded by the MaX CSIC project . The successful candidate will carry out independent and collaborative research aligned with EEAD’s scientific agenda in one or more of the following areas: resilient agroecosystems , data-driven agricultural and environmental monitoring , and Climate-Ready Innovation Labs (CRILs) . The research themes combine plant science , agronomy , environmental science , computational biology , AI , m...

Postdoctoral Researcher opportunity at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Digital Agriculture Research Lab , Department of Biological Systems Engineering. This opening is aimed at researchers in agricultural engineering , remote sensing , machine learning , precision agriculture , crop modeling , and related quantitative methods. The lab is especially interested in candidates working on regional- and field-level crop yield prediction , satellite remote sensing , deep learning , and hybri...