Notable awards Royal Society | Name Nicholas Harberd Doctoral students Ho Yuen Tam | |
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Born 15 July 1956 (age 68) ( 1956-07-15 ) Institutions University of OxfordUniversity of California, BerkeleyPlant Breeding Institute, Cambridge Thesis A genetical investigation of the alcohol dehydrogenase in barley (1981) Known for Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants Books Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants | ||
Native name Nicholas Paul Harberd | ||
Nicholas Paul Harberd FRS (born 15 July 1956) is Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
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Education
Harberd earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, a Master of Arts, and PhD in 1981, from Christ's College, Cambridge.
Career and research
He was a scientist at the Plant Breeding Institute, Trumpington, Cambridge from 1982 to 1986, and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1986 to 1988.
He is head of the Harberd group, which was located at John Innes Centre, and is now at Oxford, where he is Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences.
With George Coupland, Liam Dolan, Alison Smith, Jonathan Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009. His nomination reads: