Prof. Dr. Barbara Amon

Barbara is an Associate Professor for Environmental Engineering and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland, and board representative for research at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy in Potsdam, Germany. Having had many years of practical, hands-on experience in agriculture alongside extensive research experience, she completed her habilitation in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna in 2007. In addition to her research on the role of livestock in circular bioeconomy, she sits on many panels looking at sustainable agriculture, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the FAO LEAP partnership and the United Nations Environment Programme. She is also the Co-Chair of the Agriculture and Nature Panel as part of the UNECE Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections and of the Expert Panel on Mitigation of Agricultural Nitrogen under the UNECE Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen.