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Professor David Lamb

- School of Science and Technology

Phone: +61 +61 2 6773 3565

Building: Building C24 (Stokes Building), Room 16

Biography

David is a physicist who has worked in precision agriculture, smart farms and applied physics, including optical fibre sensing and plasma physics, for 30 years. He is presently the Chief Scientist and Deputy CEO of Food Agility, an Australian Cooperative Research Centre focussed on transforming the agrifood sector using the power of data and digital. He has co-designed/led more than 90 industry-funded R&D projects and, in addition to running the CRC R&D portfolio, he also leads the AgTrace initiative in partnership with DAFF. Passionate about ‘reality-fuelled’ agtech innovation on farms, he established the University of New England's SMART Farm in 2007, and recently the Charles Sturt University Global Digital Farm initiative. In the early 2000’s he established Australia’s first badged tertiary course in Precision Agriculture (UNE) and in 2018 co-created of the ‘Farm of the Future’ Pavilion at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. He has an additional interest in renewable energy sources and the mechanism of lightning, including the mysterious ‘ball lightning

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