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Ray is as a Plant Molecular Physiologist with over 15 years post qualification experience. He combines his role as a
Maddy is a soil microbial ecologist and biogeochemist in the Plant-Soil Interactions (PSI) research group within Ecological Sciences, James Hutton
I am a post-doctoral researcher currently employed within the Innovate UK funded project “In-Field Optical Detection of Potato Disease (Poptical)”. As such it is my role to design, establish, maintain and perform plant disease diagnostics on field and greenhouse trials that aim to determine which diseases of potato plants can be detected (and differentiated) by proximal sensing technologies such as UAV-captured imagery and field spectrometry.
Dimitris was awarded a Bsc in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the National University of Technology in Athens (Greece) before
I am a Research Software Engineer (RSE) working as part of the Information & Computational Sciences (ICS) Department. I am responsible for the conceptualisation, management and development of cutting-edge mobile applications, databases and web applications for funders (BBSRC, EU, CGIAR, Crop Trust, Norwegian Government) as well as commercial breeding companies through James Hutton Limited (JHL). My role is to drive the development of software solutions for plant genetic resources collections, phenotypic data collection and visualization tools.
I am a plant disease epidemiologist specialising in data mining, machine learning, ArcGIS, simulation modelling, and the development of decision
Ashleigh’s research interests are in microbial pathogenicity and attachment to the rhizosphere. She has investigated the molecular mechanisms of Enterohaemorrhagic
