Professor Peter Gregory

Peter is Professor of Soil Science at the University of Reading in the UK, a position he has held since 1994. Since 1995, Peter Gregory has also been Leader of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) Focus on Agriculture, Forestry and Soils – this initiative provides an international framework for planning, conducting and synthesising global change research.

Peter has research experience in Australia – in 1988 he was a visiting scientist at CSIRO Division of Plant Industries in Perth WA, and followed that with a four year secondment to CSIRO from 1990 to 1994. His current research interests include the development of non-invasive techniques for imaging roots growing in soil, the chemical and physical properties of mucilage produced by roots, modelling water and nutrient uptake by plant root systems, and developing sustainable systems of crop production.