Research group
Research overview
Global food demand is expected to increase substantially over the coming decades, whereas productivity increases of the most important food crops through conventional breeding are slowing down. Global climate change is putting additional pressures on food production. Rain-fed crop yields are increasingly sensitive to water availability and atmospheric vapour pressure deficit, and irrigated crops are depleting global groundwater supplies at an alarming rate. All of this means that new crop improvement and crop husbandry strategies are needed urgently to improve crop productivity and water use efficiency. Since photosynthesis appears to be a major underutilized route to improve crop productivity, I'm studying the physiology of photosynthesis and its interactions with environmental drivers such as light, water, temperature and CO2 with the ultimate aim to improve crop productivity and water use efficiency.
School of Biological Sciences theme affiliations
Current positions
2022-present Associate Professor in Plant Science, University of Cambridge
2018-present Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
2018-present Affiliated Faculty Position, Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois
Previous positions
2018-2022 University Lecturer in Plant Science, University of Cambridge
Qualifications
2006-2010 PhD in Plant Science, University of Cambridge
2004-2006 MSc Plant Sciences, Wageningen University
1999-2003 BSc Plant Sciences, Wageningen University
