Dr Dipl. Eng Gerassimos Peteinatos is working into the development and implementation of sensors and sensor systems in Precision Agriculture. He has a Master and Diploma in Agriculture Engineering from the Agricultural University of Athens and a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. With this interdisciplinary knowledge, he obtained a PhD at the University of Hohenheim, concerning a sensor based identification of stress in crops and weeds and utilizing this information in precision pest management.
He has participated in various projects concerning robotic systems for mechanical weed control, the development of sensors for weed detection, herbicide resistance detection on weeds, sensor based mechanical weed control, variable rate application methods and pre-harvest identifcation of Fusarium in wheat