The research section “Viticulture, Oenology and Alcoholic Beverages” (VEB) brings together a number of top professionals who have the skills and expertise to study the entire production chain of alcoholic beverages “from the field to the table”, thus entering into the essence of all the agronomical, mechanical-agricultural, productive-transformative, plant-related-industrial, economic-managerial-organisational aspects that characterise the alcoholic beverages sector, with specific reference to the wine and beer industry.
The domains of interest therefore concern: the techniques, the technologies and the operational management.
The professionals who belong to this section study in a scientific, synergetic and multi-disciplinary manner the crops (biochemistry, physiology, soil science, nutrition, varietal selection, cultivation techniques, mechanisation aspects), the products (initial, intermediate, final, supplementary and waste products), the processes (harvesting, selection, analysis, preservation, processing, monitoring phases), the energy sources (demands, efficiencies, reuse), the material means (agricultural machinery, means of transport, industrial equipment and installations) and the involved human resources (ergonomics, well-being) in relation to the agri-food chains of alcoholic beverages.
The followed approach is both theoretical-speculative, simulative-numerical, experimental-heuristic and design-applicative.
With reference to the ministerial disciplinary groupings (Ministerial Decree 855/2015), the VEB Research Section includes 11 academic referees belonging to the following Academic Fields:
- 07/B2 - Arboriculture and forest systems
- 07/C1 - Agricultural, forest and biosystems engineering
- 07/F1 - Food science and technology
