Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech is a faculty of the University of Liège exclusively dedicated to life sciences and bioengineering.
Founded over 160 years ago and part of the Université de Liège since October 2009, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech is a faculty on a human scale, located in the centre of Belgium, with state-of-the-art facilities that make it a veritable open-air laboratory for its students and researchers. Four distinct courses enable students to specialise in key areas of the life sciences: environmental sciences and technologies, management of forests and natural areas, agronomic sciences, chemistry and bioindustries.
With its Ecotron, botanical garden, market gardening areas, urban agriculture platform, analysis laboratories and pilot teaching equipment, the faculty trains academics and engineers capable of meeting the expectations of a rapidly changing society in the fields of environmental protection, agronomic production, and the processing and valorisation of bioresources.
Through our research units, we could develop our skills on a national and international scale in two main areas: "living resources and the environment" and "bioproducts and consumers". At Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, we favour a multidisciplinary and integrative approach within these research fields, which are closely linked to sustainable development.
We will bring our expertise into the HoliCow project by working on the modelling and use of big data, by developing the decision-making tools, and by training the trainers in collaboration with our PhDs and MSc.
Our team
Hélène Soyeurt, Scientific Collaborator
I am a Professor at the University of Liège (Gembloux
Agro-Bio Tech) where I teach algorithmics and machine learning. I’m working since
2005 on the development of new tools to extend the use of mid-infrared
spectrometry of the milk in dairy farming. More recently, I also started to
link this infrared analysis with satellite images and meteorological data to
develop decision tools to manage cows on pasture.