Abdul M. Mouazen

Abdul Mouazen is a Senior Full Professor and leader of the Precision Soil and Crop Engineering (PreSco) Group within the Department of Environment, Ghent University, since December 2017. He holds a PhD degree in numerical modelling of soil-tillage tools interaction. Abdul has a background in the application of engineering principles to soil and water management, with specific applications in soil dynamics, tillage, traction, compaction, mechanical weeding, soil remediation and management and precision agriculture. He has about 25 years’ experience in proximal soil sensing. Abdul has implemented different spectroscopy techniques for the analysis of soil, manure, honey, milk, cheese, mandarin, and other food and natural materials. He has developed one of three internationally patented on-line measurement systems of soil properties. Abdul has coordinated several major European projects (i.e., FarmingTruth funded by European Space Agency & FarmFUSE, ADDferti and POSHMyCo under ERA-NET, ICT-AGRI-FOOD, and WHEATWATCHER and NitroScope under Horizon Europe) and has been a partner in several other national and international projects. He has recently completed a 3.5 M EUR worth Site-Specific Soil & Crop Management (SiTeMan) project, funded by FWO, Belgium. Abdul is an Associate Editor or a member of editorial board of several journals i.e., Europan Journal of Agronomy, Soil & Tillage Research, Soil Research, Biosystems Engineering, Soil Systems, Remote Sensing, Geometics and Soil Research.

He was a Senior Lecturer at Cranfield University between 2008 and 2017, leading a group on Agricultural Systems Engineering, before which he was postdoctoral research at KULeuven in Belgium for 9 years (1999-2008), and as Assistant, Assistant Professor and Associated Professor in Aleppo University (1989-2008). Prof. Mouazen is ranked in the top 2% scientists Worldwide (2020-2025). He is a foreign member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Since 2023, he acts as the Vice-Chairman of the International Group of Proximal Soil Sensing under the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS).

He is a Member of International Soil Tillage Research Organisation (ISTRO) 2005-present; Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) 2008-present; Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) 2005-2007; International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) since 2023, Working Group on Proximal Soil Sensing (WGPSS) since established in 2008 and American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASABE), 2007-present.

Prof. Mouazen has some 300 indexed contributions in WoS, with a h-index of 56, published one full book (Elsevier), and 30 book chapters. The total number of citations in WoS is about 12000 times. He has over 150 contributions in international conferences and workshops. He supervised 17 MSc students, 7 MSc by research students, 1 MPhil student, 1 EngD student, 28 PhD students, and 16 postdocs. He won a total of 13.85 M EUR worth national research projects (28 projects), 7.81 M EUR European projects (13 projects), and 0.4 M EUR worth International projects (3 projects).