Job Description
Main Purpose of Job
To provide vision and overall leadership in crop genetics and breeding within the Department of Cell & Molecular Sciences.
Crop genetic improvement plays a critical role in advancing objectives for sustainable agriculture, net zero, and food security. Advances in precision breeding, trait selection, and genomic technologies combined with modern AI techniques and quantitative methods offer significant potential to deliver improved crop performance, resource-use efficiency, and environmental sustainability.
Main Duties of Postholder
- Accelerate genetic innovations and data-driven approaches to crop improvement across our key crops
- Conduct research on crop genetic improvement in one of the Hutton’s key crops
- Lead the potato, barley and soft fruit teams, providing vision, coherence and momentum
- Act as a key link with statistical genetics, digital technologies and other CMS resea...