Department of Plant Sciences

Dr Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, InCrops Business and Innovation Officer

Bea Schlarb-Ridley

Beatrix' role in the Department is to facilitate interaction between industry and research carried out in the department. In her role as the Cambridge-based staff member of the InCrops Project, she supports companies in the East of England in taking up low-carbon solutions based on plant materials. As one of the University's Enterprise Champions, she represents the Department at Cambridge Enterprise, and provides a link to the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning. She also coordinates the Cambridge Bioenergy Initiative, a largely industry-funded consortium working on sustainable bioenergy solutions, and convenes the Cambridge Partnership for Plant Sciences, a forum that brings together plant-related companies and research institutes in the area to facilitate efficient knowledge transfer between academic research and industrial application.