Staff
Laura Amos
Office and Licensing Administrator
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
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
Professor Gerard Bishop
Senior Research Associate - potato crops
Alin Borleanu
Technical officer - variety development
Lorenzo Borleanu
Centre Manager
Dr Lesley Boyd
Programme Leader
Eithne Browne
PhD Student
Professor Mario Caccamo
Chief Executive
Dr Anyela Camargo Rodriguez
Computational Biologist
William Campbell
Research technician - crop science and production systems
Camila Gonzalez Campo
PhD student
Martina Capozzi
Research assistant – plant physiology and pathology molecular biologist
Claire Carpenter
Technical Specialist - Seed Certification and Courses
Phoebe Carter
Events and Marketing Officer
Dr Sandra Chapman
Pathology Field Trials Manager
Catherine Chapman
PhD student - East Malling
Andrew Chell
TAG Consulting Agronomist
David Clarke
Soils and Farming Systems Technician
Magdalena Cobo Medina
PhD student
Dr James Cockram
Group leader
Lauren Colagiovanni
Senior Communication Manager: Growing Kent & Medway
Shaun Coleman
Centre Manager - Kirton
Steve Cook
Regional Agronomist - South
Mark Coxeter
Consultant, commercial IP licensing of berry fruits
Peter Craven
Research Development Manager - Potatoes
John Cussans
Weed Biology and Management Specialist
Noémie David-Rogeat
PhD student - East Malling
Greg Davison
TAG Consulting Agronomist
Poppy De Pass
West region agronomist and centre manager (Cirencester)
Dr Greg Deakin
Senior specialist – bioinformatics and statistics
Andrea Vadillo Dieguez
Research assistant
Dr Graham Dow
Group Leader, Ecophysiology and Climate Adaptation
Emma Easton
Head of NIAB 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 Michelle Fountain
Head of Pest and Pathogen Ecology
Charles Gentry
NIAB Digital Account Manager
Dr Michael Gifford
Director of Commercialisation
Tom Green
TAG Consulting Agronomist
Adam Green
Research technician
Rebecca Griffiths
Plant Technician
Dr Nastasiya Grinberg
Group Leader, Machine Learning and AI
Angus Hamilton
NIAB Agronomy Membership Administrator
Talha Hanif
Agronomy trials technician
Adrian Harris
Horticultural Trials Co-ordinator
Kate Harrison
Senior HR administrator
Dr Nichola Hawkins
Postdoctoral Researcher, plant pathology
Tim Henshaw
Technical Manager Seed Certification
Katie Hopson
Plant breeder
Dr Phil Howell
Head of Breeding
Amelia Hubbard
Plant Pathologist
Phil Humphrey
Regional Agronomist
Dr Katharina Huntenburg
Research consultant - potatoes
Dr Timo Hytönen
Principal Research Scientist
Dr Robert Jackson
Postdoctoral researcher
Abi Johnson
Plant breeder (soft fruit)
Sharon Jones
Plant breeding and micropropagation technician
Karen Jones
Technical research assistant
Dr Kostya Kanyuka
Head of Pathology
Amanda Karlstrom
Plant breeder and geneticist
Dr Belinda Kemp
Group Leader - Viticulture and Oenology Research
Stuart Knight
Deputy Director and Director of Agronomy
Dr Anindya Kundu
Postdoctoral researcher
Dr Tamunonengiye-ofori (Nengi) Lawson
Postdoctoral researcher
Clare Leaman
Cereal varieties specialist
Mark Leaman
Director of Resource Management
Dr Fiona Leigh
Senior Research Scientist
Geoffrey Liddell
Technician
Ros Lloyd
Head of Communications
Sue Mann
Field Trials Centre Manager (Cambridge)
Dr Juno McKee
Director of Ventures & Company Secretary
Vanessa McMillan
Technical manager DUS - agricultural crop characterisation
Mary McPhee
NIAB Agronomy Membership Administration Manager
Kevin Middleton
Marketing Communications Officer
Ian Midgley
National Trials Co-ordinator
Dr Matthew Milner
Senior Specialist
Stephen Morley
Seed Handling Unit Manager
Dr Nathan Morris
Farming Systems and Soils Specialist
Ece Imam Moustafa
PhD student - East Malling
Bruce Napier
Vegetable Specialist, Quality Manager & Biological Safety Officer
David Neill
Chief Operating Officer
Dr Charlotte Nellist
Programme Leader Pathology
Ross Newham
Operations Director - East Malling
Dr Aoife O' Driscoll
Senior Specialist - Crop Protection and IPM
Dr Flora O'Brien
Specialist in Root Biology
Dr Eric Ober
Programme Leader, Crop Physiology
Dr Wendy Orme
Chief Finance Officer
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
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)
Will Roberts
Business Development Manager
Gabrielle Roxby
Assistant plant breeder (soft fruit)
Sally Rule
AAC technical specialist - cereals
Dr Anusree Saha
Postdoctoral researcher - Pre-breeding
Professor Dan Sargent
Head of Genetics, Genomics and Breeding - East Malling
Dr Abhimanyu Sarkar
Programme leader - legume genetics
Dr Robert Saville
Innovation Growth Manager: Growing Kent & Medway
Elizabeth Scott
Head of Crop Characterisation, Varieties and Seeds
Dr Syed Shah
Regional Agronomist (South) & Technical Innovation Lead
Celina Xavier e Silva
Senior Entomological Technician
Katie Simmonds
Centre manager - Sutton Scotney
Dr Lydia Smith
Head of NIAB Innovation Farm
Will Smith
Research agronomist
Emma Smith
Business development and commercial contracts
Dr Eleftheria Stavridou
Senior specialist in plant nutrition
Patrick Stephenson
Regional Agronomist (North)
Dr Elizabeth Stockdale
Head of Farming Systems Research
Teresa Stratton
PA to Professor Mario Caccamo
Dr Vivien Sulik
Office Manager - Eastern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub
Dr Nada Šurbanovski
Group leader - crop epigenetics
Dr Stéphanie Swarbreck
Group Leader - Crop Molecular Physiology and Janet Harker Official Fellow in Biological Sciences at Girton College, Cambridge
Ellie Sweetman
Forage specialist
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
Simon Thundow
Research and Breeding Technician (apple and cherry)
Keith Truett
Regional Agronomist (South-East)
Will Vaughan-France
Regional agronomist (south-west)
Kate Waite
Agronomy trials co-ordinator
Adam Walker
Research Assistant, Entomology
Dr Margaret Wallace
Senior Technical Manager Agricultural Crop Characterisation
Dr Emma Wallington
Head of Crop Transformation
Dr Francis Wamonje
Research Leader - Entomology
Nick Watson
Director of Commercial Services
Andrew Watson
Head of Membership Technical Services and east region agronomist
Mark Wavish
Regional Manager (South)
Simon Welch
TAG Consulting Agronomist
Julian Westaway
BCPC General Manager
Adam Whitehouse
Project leader - strawberry breeding
Dr Charles Whitfield
Senior specialist - crop protection
Dr Trevor Wignall
Operations Manager, Water Efficient Technologies (WET) Centre
Andrew Wilkins
TAG Consulting Agronomist
Chris Winney
Head of Consultancy Services, TAG Consulting
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