| Name | Department | Research topic |
| Giles Oldroyd | Crop Science Centre | Sustainable Crop Nutrition |
| Elizabeth Stockdale | NIAB | Farming systems research, soil science, IPM, including on-farm monitoring. |
| Stephanie Swarbreck | NIAB | Plant mineral nutrition: nitrogen from uptake to management at the field level |
| Sigrid Heuer | NIAB | Exploring and exploiting genetic diversity for the development of climate-resilient and nutrient-efficient crops |
| Emma Wallington | NIAB | Plant transformation |
| Tom Wood | NIAB | Crop improvement, host-pathogen interactions, pathogenomics and the evolution of virulence, downy mildew species |
| Lynn Dicks | Zoology | Conservation scientist focused on insect conservation, biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and high quality evidence synthesis. |
| Alex Webb | Plant Sciences | Molecular Regulation of wheat heading date and chronoculture |
| Alexander Jones | Sainsbury Laboratory | Comparative environmentally responsive hormone dynamics - wheat, barley, tobacco, strawberry and medicago |
| Chris Whitewoods | Sainsbury Laboratory | Developmental genetics and crop improvement |
| Johannes Kromdijk | Plant Sciences | Reengineering photoprotection to improve photosynthetic efficiency |
| Beverely Glover | Plant Sciences | Plant development/flower development or Pollination biology |
| Julian Hibberd | Plant Sciences | Engineering photosynthesis for future crop improvement |
| Eric Ober | NIAB | Physiology-based breeding for improvements in drought tolerance and water use efficiency in crops |
| Sebastian Eves-van den Akker | Crop Science Centre | Natural variation in susceptibility and resistance to plant-parasitic nematodes |
| Nik Cunniffe | Plant Sciences | Mathematical modelling of the spread, detection, control and evolution of crop pathogens |
| Lida Derevina | Crop Science Centre | Studying the molecular basis of pathogen suppression of NLR-mediated resistance |
| Kostya Kanuka | NIAB | Plant virus based functional genomics tools |
| Charlotte Nellist | NIAB | Dissection of resistance genes controlling extreme disease resistance in brassica |
| Uta Paszkowski | Crop Science Centre | Sustainable crop nutrition through engineering symbiotic mineral uptake. |
| Jeongmin Choi | Crop Science Centre | Crop abiotic stress tolerance |
| John Carr | Plant Sciences | Frontiers in insect-mediated virus transmission. |
| Sebastian Schornack | Sainsbury Laboratory | Molecular and cellular mechanisms for intracellular plant colonisation |
| Ian Henderson | Plant Sciences | Investigating genome structure and recombination in crops |
| Tally Wright | NIAB | The past, present and future importance of quantitative genetics in crop science and plant breeding. |
| Fiona Leigh | NIAB | Molecular plant breeding and the study of genetic diversity and domestication of crop plants using molecular markers to identify and quantify genotype changes. |
| Jake Harris | Plant Sciences | Unravelling the epigenetic basis of plant resilience and memory. |
| Phil Howell | NIAB | Pre-breeding – trying to stop the gene-pool from becoming stagnant |
| Oghenejokpeme Orhobor | NIAB | Machine learning and big data. |
| Nastasiya Grinberg | NIAB | Advanced mathematical techniques for crop science: Machine learning and more. |
| Natasha Yelina | Crop Science Centre | Enhancing meiotic recombination for crop breeding |
| Ji Zhou | NIAB | Combining AI-powered trait analysis with genetic mapping to advance plant phenomics beyond the state-of-the-art. |
