Daniel PLAZA-BONILLA (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Universitat de Lleida (UdL), Spain. Was recipient of highly prestigious postdoctoral (Ramón y Cajal, Juan de la Cierva) and predoctoral (Formación de Profesorado Universitario) fellowships. He performs his activities within the Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences and Engineering. In 2013, he received his PhD in Agronomy with honours at UdL. He worked as a postdoc researcher at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRAe, France) and at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain). His research team focuses on the design and assessment of innovative climate-smart cropping system alternatives based on lower environmental impact, and adequate productivity, for a sustainable use of natural resources. The approach is systemic based on empirical techniques and soil-crop modelling.

He has authored or co-authored peer-reviewed articles (>50) in the areas of Agronomy, Soil Sciences and Environmental Sciences. He has advised several students (PhD, MSc and BSc). He is Associate Editor of the indexed (SCI) Journals Field Crops Research and Agronomy for Sustainable Development and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Geoderma. He has led different international and national projects of a range of calls. Has evaluated national and international project proposals. He has participated actively in extension seminars and field days to producers and academic teaching for five years in an agricultural community college.