ROTHAMSTED - Key Persons
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- Assistant
- Management Accountant
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- Scientific Technician - Field Entomologist
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- Professor of Conservation Science
Andrew Balmford is Professor of Conservation Science in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, where his research focuses on how to reconcile biodiversity conservation with meeting human food needs and other land-demanding activities; the costs and benefits of retaining intact ecosystems; and identifying what works in conservation.
He collaborates closely with conservation practitioners and with colleagues in other disciplines, including economics and psychology. In his book Wild Hope he argues that cautious, evidence-based optimism is vital in tackling environmental challenges. Andrew helped establish the Student Conference on Conservation Science, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, and Earth Optimism.
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- Is Proud to Hold a Bronze Award from Athena SWAN
The Equality Challenge Unit's Athena SWAN Charter was established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research.
Professor Bridget Emmett, UKCEH Science Area Head for Soils and Land Use and Head of Site UKCEH Bangor. Particular interest in soils and ecosystem science. Many projects involve a role as PI in coordinating a large number of partners to improve integration across different disciplines and sectors from catchment/landscape to national scale to support policy development and outcome reporting.
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- Management Accountant
- OPERATIONS
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- Management Accountant
- OPERATIONS
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- Research Technician
- Plant Pathology Technician
Carlos is a research technician in wheat pathogenomics, with a special interest in the interaction between the most agronomically important crops across the UK (mainly wheat and barley) and their main diseases (Septoria leaf blotch and Fusarium head blight), caused by the pathogens Zymoseptoria tritici and Fusarium graminearum, respectively. He joined Rothamsted Research more than 12 years ago, and has worked as a technician and research assistant in a plant pathology lab, gathering vast experience in numerous techniques useful in most aspects of this research area. His expertise includes, but is not limited to, growth and maintenance of pathogen isolates and cultures under sterile conditions, extraction of nucleic acids and proteins from both fungal and plant material, and subsequent downstream methods (from PCR-based methods to cloning, from fungal transformation to western blots, from qPCR to pathogenicity tests). He is also experienced in library preparation of nucleic acids for next generation sequencing. Such an array of transferable skills, together with his adaptability and willingness to learn new ones, make him an ideal member of the team.
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- Farm Operations Manager
- OPERATIONS
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- Chief Finance Officer
- Chief Finance Officer / Operations
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- Ecologist / ECN Site Manager
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- Studentship Officer
- Studentship Officer / Operations
Dr Dana MacGregor is a plant molecular geneticist with expertise in understanding how plants survive the challenges of their environment and how they pass these beneficial traits on to secure the success of subsequent generations. She is currently focusing on agricultural weeds, Nature's ultimate survivors. She and her colleagues are working on quantifying and undertaking mechanistic investigation of the traits that allow agricultural weeds to allude chemical or cultural controls. Current projects focus on developing lab-based molecular resources, tools and techniques to explore genotype-to-phenotype and phenotype-to-genotype hypotheses in problematic weeds such as Alopecurus, Lolium, and Amaranthus species. Dana has been at Rothamsted Research since 2018, she is LTHE qualified and an Accredited Supervisor. For full details of her experience and publications, please visit links on this page or https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0543-0408
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- Project Leader
- Senior Scientist
Frederic is a senior scientist and project leader at Rothamsted Research. His main interests are in plant lipid metabolism and biotechnology. He has a wealth of experience in metabolic engineering of plants (oilseeds), yeast and microalgae including 15 years investigating the biosynthesis of very long chain fatty acids and their role in growth and development. Over the past 10 years, his main research projects have involved manipulating plant lipid composition to enhance human nutrition, as well as for the sustainable production of fuel, lubricants, and chemical feedstocks. More recently, he started to use high throughput lipidomic profiling and genome wide association study (GWAS) methods to identify the genetic components that control quantitative variation of traits representing biorefining opportunities in the oilseed crop, B. napus (for example, seed phytosterol and cuticular wax content and composition).
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- Molecular Microbiologist
- Post - Doctoral Research Scientist - Microbiologist
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- Molecular Geneticist
- Phenotyping Manager
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- Project Leader - the Insect Survey
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- Statistical Data Scientist
- Statistician
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- Scientific Specialist Phytochemistry
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- Principal Chemical Ecologist
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- DEPUTY CHAIR of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
After working for a DPhil in the MRC Cell Mutation Unit at Sussex University, Dr. Doubleday worked at the Université libre de Bruxelles studying DNA repair and DNA polymerase fidelity. He then returned to work on the family farm in Kent, growing cereals, apples, pears, cherries and keeping sheep. With his Brazilian wife he is involved in the management of a rubber plantation and a sugar cane farm in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has also had experience of farming in the USA and New Zealand.
A former Chairman of National Farmers Union's Parliamentary Land Use and Environment Committee he was a member of the UK Biodiversity Action Plan Steering Group, the Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment and the EU's Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development. He has served as a director of the Brogdale Horticultural Trust (custodians of the National Fruit Collection), Silsoe Research Institute and Grainfarmers plc, and as vice chairman of the Apple & Pear Research Council and chairman of East Malling Research.
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- Head of Health, Safety and Biosafety
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- Managing Director at BlackRock
Dr Stuart Jarvis is a Managing Director at BlackRock, the world's largest asset management firm. At BlackRock, he leads the analytics team within Client Solutions in EMEA and is responsible for the development of analytical tools to support asset-liability modelling within BlackRock Solutions. He oversees the modelling work that supports pensions, insurance and other retail and institutional clients who seek assistance from BlackRock in their design of an investment strategy to meet their needs.
Dr Jarvis joined the firm in 2004, initially with Barclays Global Investors (BGI). At BGI, Dr. Jarvis was instrumental in the creation of the Liability Driven Investment business. He worked with a broad range of pension fund clients to help them better understand their liabilities and to implement strategies that reduced the risk embedded within these liabilities. He then led the research effort behind solutions and strategies created to meet a wide variety of investment problems, increasingly focusing on the development of strategic asset allocation and dynamic asset allocation strategies tailored to specific client requirements.
Prior to joining the firm, Dr Jarvis was a pensions consultant at Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow (now Aon Hewitt). Dr Jarvis is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and from 2013-2014 was Chair of the Finance and Investment board at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. He has written several papers in peer-reviewed actuarial journals on the subject of stochastic modelling and asset allocation and has spoken at numerous conferences and colloquia around the world on these topics.
Dr Jarvis earned an M.Math degree in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1991, DPhil degree in mathematics from Oxford University in 1994 and was a junior research fellow at Merton College, Oxford for three years.
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- Member of the Chartered Quality Institute
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- Quality Assurance and Improvement Manager
Ephraim is a member of the Chartered Quality Institute with over thirteen years auditing experience. His expertise includes ISO implementation, supply chain management, corrective and preventive action and specialised knowledge in quality management systems.
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- Head of Horticulture and Controlled Environments
- OPERATIONS
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- Member of the Long - Term Experiments National Capability
- Research Assistant on the Long Term Experiments
Holly is a member of the Long-Term Experiments National Capability team and her tasks start with soil sample collection, to crop and soil sample processing and finishes in the archive building. She is also involved with internal and external calibrators, including collecting samples out in the field, out of the archive or taking visitors on field and archive tours. She is trained on how to collect samples and data for the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN).
Ian Baynes joined the Biointeraction and Crop Protection Department as a Laboratory Support to projects, research groups and service users. His role is of a varied remit within the department which requires several skills set. Ian is adept at working to safety procedures and optimise laboratory and other operational policy to produce reliable and important effect that makes a difference.
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- Director of Estates Facilities and Scientific Services
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- Glasshouse Horticulturalist
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- Precision Agricultural Technician
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- Consultant Technical Horticulturalist
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- Executive Assistant to the Director & Chief Executive
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- Executive Assistant to the Science Director
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- Professor of Sustainable Agri - Food Systems at the Lincoln Institute of Agri - Food Technology
Louise Manning is Professor of Sustainable Agri-food Systems at the Lincoln Institute of Agri-food Technology (LIAT), Riseholme, University of Lincoln. She has worked for over 35 years in the agri-food supply chain in a range of academic and industry roles. Her research centres on food security and food integrity including food safety, food quality, food crime, policy and governance, social and corporate responsibility, resilience, risk assessment and mitigation strategies at business, supply chain and policy levels. In her academic roles, Louise has led strategic delivery of knowledge exchange and business support programmes.
Jan Holthuis, partner and lawyer at BUREN, is Dutch qualified lawyer registered at the Amsterdam Bar, a solicitor in England and Wales. Jan founded HIL International Lawyers & Advisers in 1995. HIL became the first Dutch law firm licensed in China by the Chinese Ministry of Justice in 2004. In 2016 Jan merged the HIL practice with Buren. Jan specializes in corporate and commercial law, in particular China related cross-border M&A and corporate restructuring, international technology transfers, China related product liability insurance claims and international arbitration.
A biologist by training, John has spent most of his career in agriculture as a Managing Director, overseeing crop technology development and product launches for a number of highly successful crop biostimulant companies.
John has always been excited by translating new developments in the world of plant biochemistry and nutrition into commercial products. His professional achievements include building several businesses and creating leading solutions from research to the field e.g. developing the first global phosphite seed treatments, introducing Nutri-Phite Technology from the University of California to the EU, Take off technology from Los Almos and most recently the first global commercialisation of the biological endophytes as Tiros from the University of Washington as solutions across broad acre crops in Europe and further afield. Since joining the industry more that 30 years ago, John has been driven by the same motivation: to take world-class crop research from scientists across the world and apply it to produce innovative, practical, affordable and sustainable solutions for modern agriculture.
Angela was appointed as Director & Chief Executive in July 2020 and is the first female director of the Institute since it was founded in 1843. Prior to her appointment, she was the Director for Science Innovation, Engagement and Partnerships at Rothamsted, a role in which she lead the Institute's overall strategy on external engagement. She developed novel mechanisms for collaborative innovation, including a new accelerator initiative (AgRIA) to co-develop innovative solutions with businesses to challenges in agri-food, and the climate change investment programme SHAKE. Angela has more than 35 years' experience in crop genetics and breeding for food and bio-renewables. She has more than 130 refereed publications, co-authored a text book on genetics, and is co-editor of books on genetics and bioenergy. In 2007, she received the Royal Agricultural Society of England Research Medal and, in 2008, the Alfred-Toepfer Prize for her research achievements. In 2022 she was awarded an honorary degree by Cranfield University.
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- Professor of Sustainability / Principal Research Scientist
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- Executive Assistant to the Science Director
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- Director of Human Resources and Organisational Change
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- Molecular Plant Pathology / PhD Student
Ying Han - Chief Procurement Officer