Alistair is a Professor of Plant Engineering Biology in the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences and current Director of Edinburgh Plant Science. Full list of publications at Google Scholar.Alistair holds an MSc from the University of Stellenbosch and a PhD from the University of KwaZulu Natal, which he gained while at the South African Sugarcane Research Institute. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and John Innes Centre before joining Edinburgh in October 2013 as a Chancellor’s Fellow. Alistair's research interests have centred around photosynthesis and how it can be manipulated to produce novel products or improve plant productivity. This article was published on 2025-06-02
