Category: Profiles

Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso (she/her) is a Professor in Interdisciplinary Plant Sciences at the University of Leeds, where she is also a UKRI Future Leader Fellow. From Seed to SproutGrowing up in […]

Charlene Kunaka-Dambire, PhD (she/her) is a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is currently working in the lab of Professor Michael Holdsworth, with a focus on understanding […]

Mikhaela Neequaye (she/her) is a British-Ghanaian researcher, currently working as a Research Assistant at John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK). She is working on regulation of plant-pollinator interactions in the lab […]

My name is Dr Osita Williams Nwokeocha (He/Him), and I am a black African from the South-eastern part of Nigeria. I was a lecturer in Nigeria from 2013 – 2018, […]

I’m Maureen, a Black African, Igbo Mum originally from Nimo, Nigeria, and a first-generation highly skilled immigrant. Although there were difficulties at first, living in the UK became easier as […]

Nicola J. Patron (she/her) is a Black British group leader at the Earlham Institute (Norwich, UK). Nicola established her group in 2016 where they work on plant molecular and synthetic […]

My name is Sibongile Zimba (she/her), call me Sibo. I am a Black African, originally from Malawi, southern Africa. I have been in academia since 2012, when I completed my […]

John is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and cereal geneticist based at RAGT Seeds Ltd., focusing on the implementation of genomic and genetic solutions to cereal breeding. Watch the video […]