Agronomist. School of Agriculture, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
PhD. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland.
Plant Breeding Academy. University of California Davis, USA.
Current positions
Scientist at Agroscope - Switzerland.
External scientist at INBA - (ad-honorem).
Research interests
Plant Breeding.
Digital Phenotyping.
Publications in refereed journals (last 5 years)
Vuille-dit-Bille N, Levy Häner L, Strebel S, Burton A, Schaad N, Pellet D, Wuyts N, Treier S, de F. Bongiovani P, and Herrera JM. (2025). Evaluation of winter wheat varieties’ responses to nitrogen supply supported by 10-band multispectral aerial imaging: reproducibility over crop seasons and sites. Smart Agricultural Technology: 101528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025.101528
Treier S, Vuille-dit-Bille N, Visse-Mansiaux M, Liebisch F, Aasen H, Roth L, Walter A, and Herrera JM. (2025). Comparison of PhenoCams and drones for lean phenotyping of phenology and senescence of wheat genotypes in variety testing. The Plant Phenome Journal 8: e70039 https://doi.org/10.1002/ppj2.70039
Durand-Maniclas F, Heinemann H, Seidel F, Ciulla F, Bárcena TG, Camenzind M, Corrado S, Csűrös Z, Czakó Zs, Eylenbosch D, Ficke A, Flamm C, Herrera JM, Horáková V, Hund A, Lüddeke F, Platz F, Poós B, Rasse D, da Silva-Lopes M, Toleikiene M, Veršulienė A, Visse-Mansiaux M, Yu K, Don A, Hirte J. (2025). Linking root length and surface area to yield: variety-specific root plasticity in winter wheat across contrasting European environments. Annals of Botany: mcaf155. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf155
de Figueiredo Bongiovani P, Herrera JM, Frossard E, de S. Nóia Júnior R, Pequeno DNL, Burton A, Levy Häner L, Asseng S. (2025). Nitrogen fertilization strategy for Swiss winter wheat under climate-induced rainfall reduction: a model-based assessment. European Journal of Agronomy 170: 127728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2025.127728
Treier S, Roth L, Hund A, Aasen H, Levy Häner L, Vuille-dit-Bille N, Walter A, Herrera JM. (2025). Analysis of variance and its sources in UAV-based multi-view thermal imaging of wheat plots. Plant Phenomics 100046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphe.2025.100046
Heinemann H, Durand-Maniclas F, Seidel F, Ciulla F, Barcena T, Camenzind M, Corrado S, Csűrös Z, Czakó Z, Eylenbosch D, Ficke A, Flamm C, Herrera JM, Horáková V, Hund A, Lüddeke F, Platz F, Poós B, Rasse D, da Silva-Lopes M, Toleikiene M, Veršulienė A, Visse-Mansiaux M, Yu K, Hirte J, Don A. (2025). Optimising root and grain yield through variety selection in winter wheat across a European climate gradient. European Journal of Soil Science, 76: e70077. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70077
Treier S, Herrera JM, Hund A, Kirchgessner N, Aasen H, Walter A, Roth L. (2024). Improving drone-based uncalibrated estimates of wheat canopy temperature in plot experiments by accounting for confounding factors in a multi-view analysis. Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 218: 721-741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2024.09.015
Veršulienė A, Hirte J, Ciulla F, Camenzind M, Don A, Durand-Maniclas F, Heinemann H, Herrera JM, Hund A, Seidel F, da Silva-Lopes M, Toleikienė M, Visse-Mansiaux M, Yu K, Franz Bender S. (2024). Wheat varieties show consistent differences in root colonization by mycorrhiza across a European pedoclimatic gradient. European Journal of Soil Science 75: e13543. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13543
Metzger K, Liebisch F, Herrera JM, Guillaume T, and Bragazza L. (2024). Prediction accuracy of soil chemical parameters by field- and laboratory-obtained vis-NIR spectra after external parameter orthogonalization. Sensors 24(11): 3556. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24113556
Guignard F, Ginsbourger D, Levy Häner L, Herrera JM. (2024). Some combinatorics of data leakage induced by clusters. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 38, 2815–2828. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-024-02715-1
Bucheli J, Visse-Mansiaux M, Herrera JM, Levy Häner L, Tack J, Finger R. (2024). Precipitation causes quality losses of large economic relevance in wheat production, Q Open 4: qoae008. https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoae008
de Figueiredo Bongiovani P, Frossard E, de S. Nóia Júnior R, Asseng S, Vuille-dit-Bille N, Burton A, Herrera JM. (2024). Responses of different winter wheat genotypes to reduced rainfall, nitrogen fertilization and pre-crops in Switzerland. Field Crops Research 308: 109272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2024.109272
Burton A, Levy Häner L, Schaad N, Strebel S, Vuille-dit-Bille N, de Figueiredo Bongiovani P, Holzkämper A, Pellet D, Herrera JM. (2024). Evaluating nitrogen fertilization strategies to optimize yield and grain nitrogen content in top winter wheat varieties across Switzerland. Field Crops Research 307: 109251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2024.109251
Metzger K, Liebisch F, Herrera JM, Guillaume T, Walder F and Bragazza L. (2024). The use of visible and near-infrared spectroscopy for in situ characterization of agricultural soil fertility: a proposition of best practice by comparing scanning positions and spectrometers. Soil Use and Management 40: e12952. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12952
Turchetta M, Corinzia L, Sussex S, Burton A, Herrera J, Athanasiadis IN, Buhmann JM, Krause A. (2022). Learning Long-Term Crop Management Strategies with CyclesGym. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35, https://openreview.net/forum?id=Zx5qJzNesn0
Grovermann C, Weiner M, Levy L, Locher M, Herrera JM, Winter E. (2022). Three decades of organic wheat improvement: Assessing the impact and returns on investment, Q Open, Volume 2, Issue 1, qoac005, https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoac005
Casali L, Herrera JM, Rubio G. (2022). Resilient soybean and maize production under a varying climate in the semi-arid and sub-humid Chaco. European Journal of Agronomy 135: 126463.
Visse-Mansiaux M, Soyeurt H, Herrera JM, Torche JM, Vanderschuren H, Dupuis B. (2022). Prediction of potato sprouting during storage. Field Crops Research 278: 108396.
Morisse M, Wells DM, Millet EJ, Lillemo M, Fahrner S, Cellini F, Lootens P, Muller O, Herrera JM, Bentley AR, Janni M. (2022). A European perspective on opportunities and demands for field-based crop phenotyping. Field Crops Research 276: 108371.
Bousselin X, Cassagne N, Baux A, Valantin-Morison M, Herrera JM, Lorin M, Hédan M, Fustec J. (2021). Interactions between plants and plant-soil in functionally complex mixtures including grass pea, faba bean and niger, intercropped with oilseed rape. Agronomy 11: 1493. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11081493
Casali L, Herrera JM, Rubio G. (2021). Modelling maize and soybean responses to climatic change and soil degradation in a region of South America. Agronomy Journal; 1-13. Top cited article 2021-2022.
Torres-Guerrero CA, Gutiérrez-Castorena MC, Gutiérrez-Castorena EV, Ortiz Solorio CA, Herrera JM. (2020). Cuantificación de los componentes del suelo en secciones delgadas. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 72: 1-17.
Lüder RMH, Qin R, Richner W, Stamp P, Streit B, Herrera JM, Noulas, C. (2020). Small-scale variation in Nitrogen use efficiency parameters in winter wheat as affected by N fertilization and tillage intensity. Sustainability 12: 3621.
Herrera JM, Noulas C, Stamp P, Levy-Häner L, Pellet D, Qin R. (2020). Nitrogen rate increase not required for no-till wheat in cool and humid conditions. Agronomy 10: 430.
Herrera JM, Levy Häner L., Mascher F, Hiltbrunner J, Fossati D, Brabant C, Charles R, Pellet D. (2020). Lessons from 20 years of studies of wheat genotypes in multiple environments and under contrasting production systems. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10: 1745. Doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01745
Grad Students
PhD: one ongoing and eight in total with different responsibilities, including main supervisor, co-supervisor and advisor.
Master: one in total as advisor.
Management of research projects (last 5 years)
Involved in the management of several Swiss and European projects.
