Note: not all Niab staff are listed. For any staff enquiries please contact Niab via info [at] niab.com.
All Niab staff can be contacted
via email firstname.surname [at] niab.com
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
Peter Baker
Technical Manager, Ornamental Crops
Tina Baker
HR administrator - East Malling
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
Dr Mark Else
Head of Crop Science and Production Systems - East Malling
Mitzi Else
Project administrator
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
Hannah Parish
Head of National Trials Operations and Regional Manager (East)
David Parish
Agronomy Consultancy Team Leader
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