Alicia Palacios-Orueta | Spatial Data Analysis | Research Excellence Award

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Dr. Alicia Palacios-Orueta | Spatial Data Analysis | Research Excellence Award

 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | Spain

Dr. Alicia Palacios-Orueta is a Full Professor (Catedrática de Universidad) in the Department of Agroforestry Engineering at the Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM), with an internationally recognized career in environmental science and remote sensing. She holds a degree in Agricultural Engineering from UPM and completed her MSc and PhD in Soil Science at the University of California, Davis. Her academic trajectory spans more than two decades, including appointments as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Full Professor, as well as research positions in leading international institutions in the United States, Italy, Israel, and Sweden. Her research focuses on soil science, climatology, meteorology, geology, plant ecology, remote sensing, hyperspectral analysis, and spatial–temporal time series analysis. She is especially known for pioneering work on hyperspectral indices for soil and vegetation assessment and for innovative statistical approaches to remote sensing time series with spatial dimensions. Her research has received international visibility, including coverage by Nature Geoscience and New Scientist, and she has contributed to advisory bodies such as the Seosat/Ingenio Mission Advisory Group. She has coordinated numerous national and international research projects, supervised doctoral theses, and taught extensively at undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels. Her scholarly impact is reflected in 44 documents, an h-index of 21, and approximately 1,743 citations. Overall, Dr. Palacios-Orueta is a leading scholar whose work has significantly advanced the understanding of land–atmosphere interactions and environmental monitoring through remote sensing.

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JianHua Xie | Engineering | Excellence in Research

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Prof. Dr. JianHua Xie | Engineering | Excellence in Research

Xinjiang Agricultural University | China

Prof. Dr. Xie Jianhua is a Professor of Engineering and a supervisor of both master’s and doctoral students, specializing in agricultural engineering and machinery. She is an active member of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering and the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and has led and participated in numerous national and provincial research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China project on the working mechanism of rod-tooth type film collecting and unloading mechanisms, as well as projects on intelligent monitoring of crop production and mechanization of sugar beet planting and harvesting. Prof. Xie has published over 60 academic papers, with more than 20 indexed in SCI/EI journals. Her work has received 307 citations across 228 documents, with an h-index of 10. She has obtained 10 invention patents, over 10 utility model patents, and 4 software copyrights. Her research focuses on intelligent agricultural machinery, mechanization of crop production, automation, and innovative system design for agricultural processes. She has been recognized with multiple awards, including a First Prize for Provincial and Ministerial Technological Invention, a Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress, and multiple Third Prizes for Science and Technology Progress and regional excellence. Prof. Xie’s work combines engineering innovation with practical agricultural applications, making significant contributions to modern agricultural mechanization.

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Featured Publications

Design and Experimental Investigation of Pneumatic Drum-Sieve-Type Separator for Transforming Mixtures of Protaetia Brevitarsis Larvae. Agriengineering, 2025.

Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Rotary Knife-Type Device for Chopping Film-Mixed Residues. Agriculture (Switzerland), 2025.

Design and Experiment of Rotary Knife-Axial Flow Drum Combined Device for Chopping and Separating Film Residue Mixture. Nongye Jixie Xuebao (Transactions of the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery), 2025.