Overview

Sigfredo, who has a primary interest in robotics, received his BSc (Agricultural Sciences) from The University of Talca in Chile in 1999 and his PhD from the University of Western Sydney in 2006. He later did two Postdoctoral Fellowships at The University of Technology in Sydney (Climate Change, elevated CO2 experiments) and The University of Adelaide (Climate Change, Viticulture). He was Lecturer in Viticulture at The University of Adelaide from 2008 until August 2012, when he was appointed Lecturer in Wine Science and Co-ordinator of the Master of Wine Technology and Viticulture program at The University of Melbourne. His main research and teaching interests are in the use of state of the art instrumentation for plant physiology research, such as short range, airborne and satellite remote sensing, Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Infrared Thermography and Sap Flow Sensors. His expertise and interest in remote sensing has extended to veterinary applications of drones, and remote sensing in the detection of respiratory disease in pigs. Sigfredo is the international co-ordinator for The Vineyard of The Future Initiative, which is a multinational collaboration to establish a fully instrumented vineyard for climate change research (www.vineyardofthefuture.wordpress.com)