Francesco Marinello graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Padova. From 2004 to 2006 he attended a PhD course in: "Industrial Production Engineering" at the University of Padua in joint supervision with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). From 2007 to 2011 he was awarded a research grant at the University of Padua, in collaboration with the Veneto Interuniversity Coordination for Nanotechnologies: research activities have been dealing with the development of sensors and measuring instruments.
Since 2012 he has been enrolled as researcher and since 2020 as associate professor and since 2024 as full professor at the TESAF Department (Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry) of the University of Padua.
Since 2017 Adjunct professor at the University of Georgia (USA), with a course on Precision Farming; since 2017 partner of the university spin-off NEOS srl, with activity on remote and proximal sensing in agriculture.
Francesco Marinello is in charge of the courses of "Agricultural Mechanics" (degree course in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies), "Applied Statistics" (degree course in Land Reorganization and Landscape Protection), "Precision Farming" (degree course in Sustainable Agriculture), “Sustainable resource-efficient food production and processing” (Food and Health degree course).
Scientific activity is done into the following themes or lines of research:
- study, analysis, modelling and improvement of agricultural tools and machinery
- study and characterization of instruments and sensors for analysis in the agricultural, livestock and environmental fields
- integration of sensors on agricultural machines and implements
- implementation of proximal and remote sensing techniques for the collection of agricultural data
- data management in the agricultural sector (blockchain, IoT, big data, etc.)
The activity was carried out not only within the framework of national and international projects, but also in collaboration with national and international companies, including, Maschio e Gaspardo, Topcon, Trimble, Foton Lovol.
Francesco Marinello has participated as supervisor or co-supervisor in over 230 bachelor's or master's degree theses, and is or has been supervisor of 6 PhD students and 6 fellows / research fellows.
Francesco Marinello has published over 200 articles (over 200 indexed by Scopus, H-index 35), 4 patents and presented over 20 works at national and international conferences.
Marinello has an intense editorial activity, including: Editor in Chief of Computer and Electronics in Agriculture (Elsevier), associate editor of Plant Methods (Springer Nature), editor in chief of the Digital Agriculture section for the journal Agriculture (MDPI), editorial board member of AgriEngineering (MDPI), editorial board member of Data in Brief (Elsevier).

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