Assumpció Antón
Researcher at the Food and Agricultural Research Institute (IRTA). First, she conducted research as agronomist and the last 20 years conducting projects in the area of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and agriculture. She has been teaching LCA and supervising bachelors, masters, and doctoral thesis students in the field of LCA applied to the agricultural sector for 15 years. She was associated professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at University Rovira Virgili(2006-2016) and the Agrifood Engineering and Biotechnology Department at the University Polytechnical de Catalunya (2020-2022). She has been involved as expert in different international initiatives (UNEP-LCI, LEAP-FAO, PAS2020, ECOINVENT, EC-TAB-AWG). Assumpció’s area of expertise is the development and application of LCA methodology in agriculture. She focuses her research on the improvement of agricultural inventories and the development of Life Cycle Impact Assessment methods related to agricultural processes, i.e., carbon footprint, land use, water consumption, eutrophication and toxicity due to pesticides use. Final goal of her work is the improvement of agricultural systems from an environmental point of view.
Montse Núñez
PhD, has an academic degree on environmental sciences (2004), a MSc in environmental sciences and technology (2006, UAB), and a PhD in environmental sciences and technology (2011). Her research and interests focus on furthering quantitative environmental footprint methods and on applying life cycle-based approaches to evaluate the sustainability of agri-food systems along their value chains. With her research, she seeks to identify solutions to improve the environmental performance of agricultural products. Montse contributes to the methodological improvement of environmental footprint methods for those environmental impact categories relevant in agriculture, particularly water use, land use, ecosystem services, and pollutant emissions due to the use of fertilisers. She has served on and led international panels and working groups (UNEP, EU’s EIP-AGRI). Montse is currently a Ramon y Cajal researcher at IRTA, the Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (Spain). She worked before at research centres in Spain (ICTA-UAB), France (inrae) and Germany (TU Berlin), always advancing environmental footprint methods.
Marta Ruiz Colmenero
Researcher at IRTA's Sustainability in Biosystems Research Program since 2020. Martais an expert in the application of LCA to food products and agrosystems.
She is interested in quantifying and improving the environmental impact of agricultural and livestock management practices.
After finishing a degree in Environmental Sciences, Dr Ruiz obtained a Ph.D by the Department of Geography and Geology of University of Alcalá (“Influence of using cover crops in hillslope vineyards to control soil erosion”). Since then, she has gained extensive experience working both in university and consultancy, conducting research mostly related to agricultural and livestock sustainability. Currently, as a researcher at the Sustainability in Biosystems Group (IRTA), she is specializing in the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, conducting LCA of different agricultural systems including different crops and animal products as well as LCA of different agricultural land management practices. She is interested in the environmental impact of agricultural practices, and the assessment of different management strategies for a more sustainable land use.
Guillem de Planell i Asón
Degree in Veterinary Medicine from the UAB.
Quality Manager at the GRUP VIÑAS slaughterhouse since 2001, where a Quality Management System has been implemented that complies with legal requirements, customer specifications and the most demanding food quality standards worldwide, and also the sanitary conditions required by third countries necessary to export.
Àngela Casanovas Gil
Àngela Casanovas Gil is an Agricultural Engineer from the University of Lleida. Since 2021, she has been the director of Asoprovac Catalonia, the association that represents the beef cattle production sector. She has worked at the Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives of Catalonia between 2000 and 2021 as technical manager of different livestock and animal feed sectors. Both in his current post and in previous ones, she has coordinated projects focused on reducing emissions and improving the management of livestock waste.
Gabriel Mariscal
Degree in Veterinary Science by Saragossa University (Spain). MBA by ESADE. General Management Program (PDG) by IESE. Actually, CEO in Llet Nostra Alimentària, a company founded by a grup of Catalan milk producers’ cooperatives to market their own production
