Staff

Helen Appleyard

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

Dr Sarah Arnold

Applied Entomology Researcher

Jasmine Atkins

PhD student - Plant Pathology

Hassan Awashra

Research Agronomist

Deborah Babalola

PhD student - East Malling

Tina Baker

HR administrator - East Malling

Peter Baker

Technical Manager, Ornamental Crops

Toby Barber

Senior Technician

Alison Barnett

TAG Consulting Agronomist

Dr Helen Bates

Specialist – molecular biology

Dr James Bedford

Postdoctoral researcher

Akil Bonaparte

Cereal Pathologist

Lorenzo Borleanu

Area Manager - South-East

Sam Bousfield

Trials Manager

Gerdientje Bouwhuis

Potato Trials Team Lead

Dr Lesley Boyd

Programme Leader

Abi Brock

PhD student

Sue Cahill

Seed Handling Unit Manager

Camila Gonzalez Campo

PhD student - East Malling

Claire Carpenter

Technical Specialist - Seed Certification and Courses

Dr Sandra Chapman

Pathology Field Trials Manager

Dr Manash Chatterjee

Interim Chief Growth and Engagement Officer

Dr Tansy Chia

Post-doctoral Researcher (Plant Genetics)

Dr David Clarke

Soils and Farming Systems Specialist

Dr James Cockram

Group Leader: Trait Genetics

Lauren Colagiovanni

Senior Communication Manager: Growing Kent & Medway

Shaun Coleman

Area Manager - Central

Steve Cook

Regional Agronomist - South

Dr Shraddha Dahale

Post Doctoral Researcher (Molecular Plant Pathologist)

Greg Davison

Agronomist

Poppy de Pass

Regional Agronomist (West) and Consulting Agronomist

Dr Greg Deakin

Senior specialist – bioinformatics and data analytics

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

Georgina Fagg

Research Assistant

Stephen Flack

Senior Technical Manager Agricultural Crop Characterisation

Dr Michelle Fountain

Head of Science - Cropping Systems

Paul Garfoot

Agronomist

Daisy Garratt

PhD student - Plant Pathology

Dr Michael Gifford

Director of Commercialisation

Krystyna Gostkiewicz

Plant Pathologist

Maegan Green

PhD Student - Quantitative Genetics

Tom Green

Agronomist

Rebecca Griffiths

Research Assistant

Dr Nastasiya Grinberg

Group Leader: Machine Learning and AI

Lauren Hall

Area Manager - West

Talha Hanif

Agronomy trials technician - south-east

Adrian Harris

Horticultural Trials Co-ordinator

Kate Harrison

HR Co-ordinator

Dr Nichola Hawkins

Research Scientist

Dr Katrina Hayter

Chief Executive Officer

Tim Henshaw

Senior Technical Manager - seed certification

Brooke Hornby

Head of Operations - Cropping Systems

Richard Horsnell

Senior Research Scientist

Dr Phil Howell

Research Lead - crop genetic resources

Phil Humphrey

Regional Agronomist

Dr Robert Jackson

Head of Science - Independent Validation and Certification

Karen Jones

Technical research assistant

Dr Kostya Kanyuka

Head of Science - Crop Improvement

Jennifer Kingsnorth

Senior Plant Pathology Research Assistant

Eda Knights

PhD student - Cambridge

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

Head of Operations - Crop Improvement

Ros Lloyd

Head of Communications

Dr Bethany Love

Post doctoral researcher - quantitative genetics

Sue Mann

Field Trials Manager (Central)

Dr Joseph Martlew

Senior specialist - research agronomist

Simon McAdam

Research Plant Pathologist

Kirsty Mcleary

Tissue Culture Specialist

Dr Vanessa McMillan

Senior Technical Manager

Mary McPhee

Agronomy Membership Administration Manager

Naomi Menzies

Agronomy trials technician - south

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

Group Leader, Pathology

Ross Newham

Head of IT & 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)

Dr Matevz Papp-Rupar

Integrated Crop Protection Lead

Hilary Papworth

Head of Operations - Independent Validation and Certification

Hannah Parish

Head of National Trials Operations

David Parish

Agronomy Consultancy Team Leader

Dr Tom Passey

Principal Scientific Assistant

Dr Lawrence Percival-Alwyn

Researcher- Molecular Biology and Informatics

Mike Perry

Field Trials Manager (West)

Colin Peters

Field Crop Agronomy Advice Lead

Tom Poole

Pathology Technician

Dr Jordan Price

Group Leader in Functional Genomics

Claire Pumfrey

Project Manager - training

Gary Rackham

Agronomist - East Anglia

Scott Raffle

Senior Knowledge Exchange Manager - East Malling

Katie Riccio

PhD student - Plant Pathology

Stewart Ritchie

Area Manager - North

Dr Sarah Roberts

Potato physiology research specialist

Ellie Roberts

Forage crops specialist

Elizabeth Scott

Head of Crop Characterisation

Dr Riccardo Scotti

Visiting Scientist – Soil Microbiome and Metagenomics

Dr Syed Shah

Regional Agronomist (South) & Technical Innovation Lead

John Sillitoe

Chief Operating Officer

Celina Xavier e Silva

Senior Entomological Technician

Katie Simmonds

Area Manager - South

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

Director of Cropping Systems

Teresa Stratton

Executive Assistant to the CEO

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

Agronomist

Andrew Thomas

Agronomy trials co-ordinator - West

Henry Tidd

Plant Molecular Pathologist

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

Director of Independent Validation and Certification

Dr Emma Wallington

Head of Crop Transformation

Dr Francis Wamonje

Senior Specialist: Research Leader in Entomology

Mark Wavish

Area Manager - South-West

Julian Westaway

BCPC General Manager

Dr Charles Whitfield

Senior specialist - crop protection

Chris Whyles

Area Manager - East

Kate Wilding

Agronomy and OSR variety trials co-ordinator

Dr Thomas Wood

Deputy Head of Plant Pathology

Dr Tally Wright

Group Leader: Crop Quantitative Genetics

Professor Xiangming Xu

Director of Research

Chandra Bhan Yadav

Research Leader - Molecular Geneticist

John Youles

Agronomist

Katia Kouloumprouka Zacharaki

Total Controlled Environment Agriculture (TCEA) Soft Fruit Specialist

Dr Camila Zanella

Senior Post-Doctoral Research in Quantitative Genetics and Plant Pathology