Halachmi Ilan Ph.D.
Senior Research Officer, Head of the Lab For Precision livestock farming (PLF) | Volcani Institute
- Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
- Growth Production and Environmental Systems Engineering
- Volcani Institute.
- +972-39683449
Biography
Prof. Ilan Halachmi , PhD
Senior Research Officer, Head of the Lab For Precision livestock farming (PLF) | Volcani Institute.
Adjunct Professor, Computer Simulation, Faculty of Engineering Sciences | Ben-Gurion University.
PLF section editor | Animal. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal
Former representative of Israel and the Madrilenian countries at the EAAP Council; https://www.eaap.org/about-us/council/
Scientific director | Northern R&D (https://www.migal.org.il/en/northern-r-and-d );
Sites: ARO: http://www.agri.gov.il/en/people/716.aspx
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PMfuwcIAAAAJ
http://il.linkedin.com/pub/ilan-halachmi/58/10/221
Book: http://www.wageningenacademic.com/plfa
Founder and first President of the EAAP PLF Study Commission: http://www.eaap.org/presentation/scientific-structure/scientific-commissions/commission-on-precision-livestock-farming-plf/
Advice for Contacting:
Email: halachmi@volcani.agri.gov.il
Mobile Phone (also WhatsApp): +972-50-6220112
“My emails occasionally arrive outside of your core hours, as I may be in a different time zone. However, please feel free to respond during your normal working days.”
Research Interests
Prof. Ilan Halachmi
Senior Research Scientist, Head of the Lab For Precision livestock farming (PLF) | Volcani Institute.
Ilan grew up on a happy four-generation family farm, cultivating livestock and varied seasonal arable farming. The farm is still active in the family. Ilan had a mechanical engineering BSc study at the Technion Haifa, an MSc in BGU, and PhD in Wageningen, Netherlands.
Selected International EU research projects: 2020 EU Horizon – ‘TechCare’; ‘Sm@RT’, EU-FACCE- ‘FreeWalk’; ‘OptiBarn’ Optimized animal-specific barn climatization facing temperature rise and increased climate variability. EU-FP7: ‘EU-PLF- Bright Farm by Precision Livestock Farming. ‘Bio-business.. EU-FP6. Optiscore – creation of animal condition scoring protocols using new electronic sensors.
Selected scientific services:
| 2022- to date | northern-r&d (https://www.migal.org.il/en/northern-r-and-d); scientific director |
| 2020 –2024 | EAAP Councile; Representative of Israel and the Madrilenian countries |
| 2016-to 2021 | EAAP Study Commission on Precision Livestock Farming (PLF); Founder and first President |
| 2011- 2018 | European Committee for Precision Livestock Farming (ECPLF and EAPLF); Part of the foundation team and mangmant team. |
| 2014-to date | Section Editor; PLF (precision livestock farming). Animal an International Journal of Animal Bioscience (‘Animal’, Cambridge University Press). Invited Guest Editor; PLF Special Issue; |
Science related facts: Over 100 originals top-tier peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals and conferences. Life time h-index is 42, i10-index 85, the total number of citation is 5011, and 10 patents. PLF Section editor in Animal. 8 book chapters, and 200 other pepers (i.e. abstracts, full papers in conference proceedings, papers in popular scientific journals). Book: Halachmi, I (2015). Precision livestock farming applications; Making sense of sensors to support farm management.Ilan Halachmi, 328 pages, edited www.wageningenacademic.com/plfa; https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=PMfuwcIAAAAJ
Current PLF technology projects running in my PLF lab: mitigation heat stress (poultry, dairy cows), monitoring dairy cow individual feed efficiency, small ruminants and beef cattle – EWS – early warning systems development based on automatic body weight and drinking pattern, Data science technology for optimal BSF fly as a feed source for livestock. Virtual fencing and digital technologies for grazing animals