Nicholas Harberd


Nicholas Paul Harberd is Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science and former head of the Department of [Plant Sciences, University of Oxford|Department of Plant Sciences] at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.

Education

Harberd earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, a Master of Arts, and PhD in 1981, from the University of Cambridge where he was a student of 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 has been at the University of Oxford since his appointment as Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences in 2007.
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

Harberd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009. His nomination reads: