Nicholas Harberd is one of the world's leading plant biologists. He currently directs a research team at the John Innes Centre in Norwich and is Honorary Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia. In 2008 he will become Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences and Professorial Fellow at St John's College, University of Oxford. He is the author of numerous scientific papers, has published in the leading international scientific journals Nature and Science, and is the father of Alice and Jack.