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

Mark Coxeter
Consultant, commercial IP licensing of berry fruits

Dr Shraddha Dahale
Post Doctoral Researcher (Molecular Plant Pathologist)

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

Ece Imam Moustafa
PhD student - East Malling
Bruce Napier
Vegetable Specialist, Quality Manager & Biological Safety 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
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 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
Senior specialist in 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 and Janet Harker Official Fellow in Biological Sciences at Girton College, Cambridge

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