Giles Oldroyd

Giles Oldroyd
Born
Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of East Anglia
University of California, Berkeley
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Scientific career
FieldsPlant symbioses
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Stanford University
ThesisIdentification and characterization of Prf a resistance gene in tomato (1998)
Notable studentsYiliang Ding
Websitewww.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/giles-oldroyd

Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd FRS is a professor at the University of Cambridge, working on beneficial Legume symbioses in Medicago truncatula. He has been a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award winner and the Society of Biology (SEB) President's Medal winner. From 2014 Oldroyd has been in the top 1% of highly cited plant scientists across the world.