Costel Samuil

Costel Samuil serves as Professor and Vice-rector for Didactic Activity at Iași University of Life Sciences, affiliated with the Faculty of Agriculture and Department of Plant Science. Previously, he was Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture (2016-2020) and Vice Dean (2012-2016), and currently chairs ARACIS's Commission of Agricultural Sciences, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine.

His research focuses on improving degraded permanent pasturelands and optimizing pastureland efficiency through advanced forage crop technologies. Key areas include developing sustainable management practices for temporary pasturelands, enhancing annual/perennial fodder plant cultivation, and analyzing fertilization/climatic impacts on grassland biodiversity. This work bridges pratology, ecological farming, and agricultural sustainability.

Professor Samuil has secured 26 research grants and contracts while authoring 165 scientific papers and 22 academic textbooks. His leadership extends to coordinating university agronomical research departments and academic programs across agronomy, agribusiness, and food engineering disciplines.

He maintains active memberships in the Romanian Society of Agronomists (since 1999), the "Haralamb Vasiliu" University Foundation for Supporting Farmers (since 2000), the Romanian Grassland Society (since 2009), and the European Grasslands Federation (since 2006).