NIAB

Sigrid Heuer has been Head of the Pre-Breeding Department at NIAB in Cambridge since October 2021.

She is a molecular crop physiologist with twenty years of international experience (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia) working towards enhancing abiotic stress tolerance and nutrient use efficiency in rice and wheat, and more recently beans.

Franziska is an agricultural scientist with a keen interest in science for policy.

She received her M.Sc. with a main focus in Agro-Economics from the Technical University of Munich in Germany, and her MSc in Crop Science from the University of Nottingham, where she studied in the UK and Malaysia. She then joined the University of Cambridge for research in agriculture and food security.