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Green Tea Field
CDT LEADERSHIP
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Professor Simon Parsons

Director

Research interests: explainable AI; computer vision; plant phenotyping; decision making

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Professor Christos Tachtatzis

Deputy Director and Co-Investigator

Research interests:
computer and machine vision, remote sensing, hyperspectral imaging, precision farming

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Professor Craig Michie

Co-Investigator

Research interests: sensor systems, AI and data analytics

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Sarah Ward

Project Manager

Our CDT Coordinator, working across four UK institutions and creating an inclusive and supportive environment for our students

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Elaine Murray

SUSTAIN Administrator

Our CDT Administrator, with interests in public policy, education, and community engagement

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Fran Young

SUSTAIN Administrator

Fran Young is the SUSTAIN Administrator at Queen's University Belfast

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Professor Elizabeth Sklar

Deputy Director and Co-Investigator

Research interests: multi-robot and human-robot teaming; behaviour mining; data-backed decision making

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Dr Milan Markovic

Deputy Director and Co-Investigator

Research interests: transparency, knowledge graphs, provenance, Large Language Models, carbon accounting

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Professor Pete Smith

Co-Investigator

Research interests: climate change mitigation, soils, agriculture, food systems, ecosystem services modelling, nature-based solutions

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Heather Smith

Stakeholder Relationships Manager

SUSTAIN's Stakeholder Relationships Manager, with a background in business development in agri-tech research

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Charlie James

Project Coordinator

Project Coordinator for the SUSTAIN AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) at the University of Lincoln, supporting students on their academic journey

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Professor Ilias Kyriazakis

Deputy Director and Co-Investigator

Research interests: automated health and welfare detection; environmental impact of agri-food systems; animal resilience; simulation modelling

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Professor Chris Creevey

Co-Investigator

Research interests: computational biology, microbiology, one health, phylogenetics, evolution, ecology

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Dr Andrey Postnikov

Lecturer in AI for Sustainable Agriculture

Research interests: multi-agent systems, mathematical optimisation, robotics, nonlinear dynamical systems

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Ana Garcia

SUSTAIN Administrator

Administration Coordinator at the University of Aberdeen, supporting SUSTAIN's management team

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Matthew Beddows

Research Software Engineer

Research interests: machine learning, agri-food, virtual reality

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