Position Title
Director of lab
- Advanced Irrigation
Biography:
Andre Daccache has more than 10 years of international research experience in agricultural water management and irrigation engineering. He has an MSc in land and water resources management from the International Agronomic Mediterranean Institute of Bari (IAMB) and a Ph.D. in irrigation engineering from the politecnico di Bari (Italy). Before joining UC Davis, he was a senior consultant at IAMB working on EU-Mediterranean projects related to the development of research strategy in water for agriculture and innovative technologies to enhance the adoption of water reuse for irrigation in the North African countries. He also worked as academic fellow at Cranfield University (UK) on numerous projects related to agricultural water management and climate change impact analysis. This includes benchmarking irrigation efficiency and the design of an intelligent overhead system for precision irrigation in horticultural field crops.