Staff

Robert is the lead UAV pilot and senior data scientist within NIAB’s Data Sciences Team. He is an expert in the use of remote sensing tool, including drones, to assess a variety of crops under field conditions. The Data Sciences Team is combining phenotyping, genotyping and environmental data, to developing open-source hardware and software to address yield, quality, and disease related challenges for UK’s key agricultural and horticultural crops such as wheat, brassicas, strawberry and orchard fruits.

Ian has worked at NIAB since 2007, having previously studied agriculture at Newcastle University.

After five years working as a trials officer at NIAB's Headley Hall regional centre in North Yorkshire, he moved to NIAB Cambridge to become a trials coordinator. Now based back in North Yorkshire, but in the same role, Ian’s responsibilities include contract-management of all commercial cereal and pulse variety trials and coordination of NIAB Membership trials.

Margaret, along with Stephen Flack, leads the Agricultural Crop Characterisation team delivering Seed Certification in England and Wales, and UK DUS (Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability) testing of combinable crops, sugar beet, fodder kale and ornamental species as contracted by Defra and APHA - the Animal and Plant Health Agency.