George Coupland

George Coupland FRS (born December 20, 1959 Dumfries) is a Scottish plant scientist, and Research Scientist and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.[1][2][3]

Coupland earned a First Class Honours from University of Glasgow in 1981, and PhD from University of Edinburgh in 1984. He was postdoctoral fellow at University of Cologne from 1985 to 1988. He was Research Group Leader at the Plant Breeding Institute, University of Cambridge, from 1989 to 1990. He was Research Group Leader at the John Innes Centre, from 1990 to 2001.[4] He is married to British botanist Jane E. Parker.[5]

Coupland was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2007[6] and a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in May 2012.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/english/research/couplandGroup/coupland/
  2. ↑ http://www.sebiology.org/publications/Bulletin/July07/Fellowship.html
  3. ↑ http://www.garlandscience.com/ecommerce_product/author_bio.jsf?authorBio=&isbn=9780815340256
  4. ↑ http://www.mpg.de/331522/pflanzenzuechtungsforschung_wissM
  5. ↑ John lnnes Centre 2001, p. 41.
  6. ↑ "Fellows". royalsociety.org. The Royal Society. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". National Academy of Sciences. May 1, 2012.

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