Dr Johannes Kromdijk

 

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.

 

Organisms, Evolution and Ecology 

 

2018-present University Lecturer in Plant Physiology, University of Cambridge

2018-present Affiliated Faculty Position, Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

2013-2018 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois

2010-2013 Research Scientist Crop Physiology, Wageningen University and Research Centre

2006-2006 Junior Researcher, Wageningen University and Research Centre

 

2006-2010 PhD in Plant Science, University of Cambridge

2004-2006 MSc Plant Sciences, Wageningen University

1999-2003 BSc Plant Sciences, Wageningen University

 

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