**Vladimir Panchenko**

Vladimir Panchenko is an Associate Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the Russian University of Transport, and a Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Non-traditional Energy Systems at the Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM. He graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 2009 with an engineering qualification. His Ph.D. thesis, "Power plants based on renewable energy," was defended in 2013. He has been an Assistant Editor since 2019 at the International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering, and a Guest Editor since 2019 for these Special Issues of the MDPI journal (Switzerland): Applied Sciences, Energies, and Agriculture. He has also coedited the conference proceedings in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (Springer), and served as an Editor of IGI GLOBAL (USA) and Nova Science Publisher (USA). He has participated in more than 100 exhibitions and conferences at various levels, and has published more than 300 scientific papers, including 14 patents, 1 international patent, 6 educational publications, and 4 monographs.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir-Panchenko-2.

#### **Alexey Sibirev**

Alexey Sibirev received an M.S. degree in engineering and a degree of candidate of technical science from Penza State Agrarian University in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He also has a Ph.D. in technical science from the Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM, which he gained in 2020. Alexey gained experience in the industry as a mechanic and chief engineer in 2010-14, and since 2015 has been working as a researcher in the laboratory of machine technologies in vegetable growing at the Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM, and has been head of the laboratory since 2017. His research covers the development of technical and economic mechanisms for increasing the production of vegetables and potatoes and the efficiency of these machines, and addresses other issues related to the creation of new engineering technologies for the agroindustrial complex.
