Dr Caspar Chater

Senior Research Leader, Royal Botanic Gardens

Caspar Chater is a Senior Research Leader in Crops and Global Change at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, UK. He is currently working to improve bean and soybean water deficit resilience and has interests in harnessing Crop Wild Relatives and Indigenous crops to diversify agriculture and enhance crop abiotic stress responses in the face of the climate emergency. He also leads a Defra-funded project with World Forest ID to develop global traceability tools for forest risk commodities such as soybean and cocoa which will support deforestation regulations and future food crop supply chain transparency. His translational approaches to improving legume drought responses won him the Newton Prize Mexico 2018 and the Rank Prize Nutrition Award 2020.