Staff

Helen Appleyard

Chief Officer of the Official Seed Testing Station (OSTS) and Head of Analytical Services

Dr Sarah Arnold

Applied Entomology Researcher

Deborah Babalola

PhD student - East Malling

Tina Baker

HR administrator - East Malling

Peter Baker

Technical Manager, Ornamental Crops

Alison Barnett

TAG Consulting Agronomist

Dr Helen Bates

Research scientist

Jon Bellamy

TAG Consulting Agronomist

Lorenzo Borleanu

Field Trials Centre Manager (East Malling)

Dr Lesley Boyd

Programme Leader

Professor Mario Caccamo

Chief Executive

Sue Cahill

Seed Handling Unit Manager

William Campbell

Research technician - crop science and production systems

Camila Gonzalez Campo

PhD student - East Malling

Claire Carpenter

Technical Specialist - Seed Certification and Courses

Phoebe Carter

Events and Marketing Officer

Dr Sandra Chapman

Pathology Field Trials Manager

Andrew Chell

TAG Consulting Agronomist

David Clarke

Soils and Farming Systems Technician

Dr James Cockram

Group Leader: Trait Genetics

Lauren Colagiovanni

Senior Communication Manager: Growing Kent & Medway

Shaun Coleman

Centre Manager

Steve Cook

Regional Agronomist - South

Dr Shraddha Dahale

Post Doctoral Researcher (Molecular Plant Pathologist)

Huw Davis

Cereal pathologist, UKCPVS technical lead

Greg Davison

TAG Consulting Agronomist

Poppy de Pass

Regional Agronomist (West) and Consulting Agronomist

Dr Greg Deakin

Senior specialist – bioinformatics and statistics

Dr Martin Dougherty

Chief Operating Officer

Dr Graham Dow

Group Leader, Ecophysiology and Climate Adaptation

Emma Easton

Head of Glasshouse Facilities

Francesca Elliott

Research technician – entomology

Mitzi Else

Project administrator

Dr Mark Else

Head of Crop Science and Production Systems - East Malling

Luis Felgueiras

Farm Manager - East Malling

Felicidad Fernández Fernández

Senior Fruit Breeder

David Fisher

PhD student - East Malling

Stephen Flack

Senior Technical Manager Agricultural Crop Characterisation

Dr Mark Fletcher

Head of Agronomy Services

Dr Michelle Fountain

Head of Pest and Pathogen Ecology

Dr Michael Gifford

Director of Commercialisation

Tom Green

TAG Consulting Agronomist

Rebecca Griffiths

Plant Technician

Dr Nastasiya Grinberg

Group Leader: Machine Learning and AI

Talha Hanif

Agronomy trials technician

Adrian Harris

Horticultural Trials Co-ordinator

Kate Harrison

HR Co-ordinator

Dr Nichola Hawkins

Research Scientist

Tim Henshaw

Senior Technical Manager - seed certification

Richard Horsnell

Senior Research Scientist

Dr Phil Howell

Research Lead - crop genetic resources

Phil Humphrey

Regional Agronomist

Dr Timo Hytönen

Principal Research Scientist

Dr Robert Jackson

Senior data scientist

Abi Johnson

Plant breeder (soft fruit)

Karen Jones

Technical research assistant

Dr Kostya Kanyuka

Head of Pathology

Dr Belinda Kemp

Group Leader - Viticulture and Oenology Research

Stuart Knight

Deputy Director and Director of Agronomy

Eda Knights

PhD student - Cambridge

Dr Anindya Kundu

Postdoctoral researcher

Dr Julia Lambret Frotte

Plant Molecular Biologist

Dr Tamunonengiye-ofori (Nengi) Lawson

Postdoctoral researcher

Clare Leaman

Cereal varieties specialist

Mark Leaman

Director of Resource Management

Dr Fiona Leigh

Senior Research Scientist

Ros Lloyd

Head of Communications

Dr Bethany Love

Post doctoral researcher - quantitative genetics

Sue Mann

Field Trials Centre Manager (Cambridge)

Dr Joseph Martlew

Senior specialist - research agronomist

Vanessa McMillan

Technical manager DUS - agricultural crop characterisation

Mary McPhee

Agronomy Membership Administration Manager

Kevin Middleton

Digital Communications Officer

Ian Midgley

National Trials Co-ordinator

Dr Nathan Morris

Farming Systems and Soils Specialist

Bruce Napier

Vegetable Specialist, Quality Manager & Biological Safety Officer

Dr Charlotte Nellist

Programme Leader Pathology

Ross Newham

Operations Director - East Malling

Maria Alejandra Novoa-Torres

PhD student

Dr Aoife O' Driscoll

Senior Specialist - Crop Protection and IPM

Dr Flora O'Brien

Specialist in Root Biology

Dr Eric Ober

Research agronomist (crop physiology)

Chris Page

TAG Consulting Agronomist

Dr Matevz Papp-Rupar

Plant Pathologist, Project Leader

Hilary Papworth

Ornamental Crop Glasshouse Specialist

David Parish

Agronomy Consultancy Team Leader

Hannah Parish

Head of National Trials Operations and Regional Manager (East)

Dr Lawrence Percival-Alwyn

Researcher- Molecular Biology and Informatics

Mike Perry

Regional Manager (West) & Centre Manager - Callow

Colin Peters

Break crop specialist

Hannah Pettet

Membership and Training Coordinator

Haidee Philpott

Senior statistician

Jack Poulden

Research Trials Agronomist

Dr Jordan Price

Group Leader, Fungal Biotechnology

Claire Pumfrey

Project Manager - training

Gary Rackham

East Regional Agronomist/TAG Consulting

Scott Raffle

Senior Knowledge Exchange Manager - East Malling

Hayley Rhodes

Regional Manager (North)

Ellie Roberts

Forage crops specialist

Dr Sarah Roberts

Potato physiology research specialist

Dr Anusree Saha

Postdoctoral researcher - Pre-breeding

Abdul Samad

Agronomy Trials Technician

Dr Abhimanyu Sarkar

Programme leader - legume genetics

Elizabeth Scott

Head of Crop Characterisation

Dr Syed Shah

Regional Agronomist (South) & Technical Innovation Lead

Dr Manisha Sharma

Plant Molecular Biologist

Celina Xavier e Silva

Senior Entomological Technician

Katie Simmonds

Field Trials Centre Manager (Sutton Scotney)

Dr Lydia Smith

Project lead - Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping

Emma Smith

Business development and commercial contracts

Dr Eleftheria Stavridou

Programme leader - plant nutrition

Patrick Stephenson

Regional Agronomist (North)

Katie Stewart

PhD student – East Malling

Dr Elizabeth Stockdale

Head of Farming Systems Research

Teresa Stratton

PA to Professor Mario Caccamo

Dr Nada Šurbanovski

Group leader - crop epigenetics

Dr Stéphanie Swarbreck

Group Leader - Crop Molecular Physiology

Alex Talibudeen

Technical Manager DUS - Agricultural Crop Characterisation

Matteo Tarquini

Technician agronomist

Benjamin Tea

Glasshouse manager & technical grower

Julian Thirsk

Consultant - TAG Consulting

Andrew Thomas

Agronomy trials co-ordinator - Hereford

Jasmine Toole

Soils technical lead and knowledge exchange coordinator

Keith Truett

Regional Agronomist (South-East)

Will Vaughan-France

Regional agronomist (south-west)

Adam Walker

Research Assistant, Entomology

Dr Margaret Wallace

Joint Head of Agricultural Crop Characterisation

Dr Emma Wallington

Head of Crop Transformation

Dr Francis Wamonje

Senior Specialist: Research Leader in Entomology

Nick Watson

Director of Commercial Services

Andrew Watson

Head of Membership Technical Services and east region agronomist

Mark Wavish

Regional Manager (South)

Julian Westaway

BCPC General Manager

Dr Charles Whitfield

Senior specialist - crop protection

Dr Trevor Wignall

Operations Manager, Water Efficient Technologies (WET) Centre

Kate Wilding

Agronomy and OSR variety trials co-ordinator

Andrew Wilkins

TAG Consulting Agronomist

Dr Thomas Wood

Senior Specialist, Plant Pathology

Dr Tally Wright

Group Leader in Quantitative Genetics

Professor Xiangming Xu

Director of Research

Chandra Bhan Yadav

Research Leader - Molecular Geneticist

John Youles

TAG Consulting Agronomist

Dr Camila Zanella

Postdoctoral researcher - pre-breeding and plant pathology

Professor Ji Zhou

Head of Data Sciences