ETSIAM CÓRDOBA | Mª del Carmen del Campillo, new director of the Higher Technical School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering

The professor of Plant Production in the Department of Agronomy, Mª del Carmen Campillo Garcíahas been proclaimed new director of the Higher Technical School of Agronomic and Forestry Engineering (Etsiam) of the University of Córdoba (UCO), after the elections held in the center and to which he participated as a single candidate. Del Campillo has been elected with 92.55% of the votes cast, according to the UCO. Mª del Carmen Campillo succeeds Professor Rosa Gallardo Cobos at the head of Etsiam.

By sectors, the new director of Etsiam has obtained the support of the 98.75% of the votes issued from Sector A (teachers with permanent employment); 94.11% from sector B (other teaching and research staff); 100% of the votes cast by the service administration staff (sector C) and 85.88% of the student body (Sector D). Regarding participation, with the exception of the student group, it has been very high in the rest of the sectors: 86.95% of Sector A, 58.6% of Sector B and 100% of the administration and services staff.

The new director

Mª del Carmen Campillo is an Agricultural Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and obtained a PhD from the University of Córdoba in 1992. She began working at the UCO when she was hired to carry out an evaluation of soils in Bailén (Jaén) and then completed her doctoral thesis on the properties of soils that influence iron nutrition in plants, as well as the design of sustainable fertilizers to prevent anemia in plants. She had the opportunity to do research in laboratories in the United States (Texas A&M University) and Holland (Wageningen University) and continue learning about the fertility management of some mineral elements as significant as iron and phosphorus. Since then, she is a professor of Soil Science, Geology and Climatology at the University of Córdoba. In 2019 she was appointed director of the Chair of Agricultural and Food Innovation of the Caja Rural del Sur Foundation and the University of Córdoba.

Along with the new director, the following are part of her management team:

• Academic Secretary: Pedro Sánchez Zamora

• Deputy Director of Planning and Academic Organization: Rafael Enrique Hidalgo Fernández

• Deputy Director of Students, Quality and Relations with Companies: Inmaculada Garrido Jurado

• Deputy Director of Institutional Relations: Tom Steven K. Vanwalleghem

Quality, Degree and Master Coordinations:

• Quality: Francisco José Castillo Ruiz

• Degree in Agri-Food and Rural Engineering: Mª Jesús Aguilera Ureña

• Degree in Forest Engineering: Óscar Pérez Priego

• Degree in Oenology: Rafael Andrés Peinado Amores

• Master in Agronomic Engineering: Irina Torres Rodríguez

• Master in Forestry Engineering: Emilio Jesús González Sánchez

• Master in Digital Transformation of the Agri-Food and Forestry Sector (Digital-Agri): Rafael González Perea