Caspar Chater

Caspar Chater is a Research Leader in Crops and Global Change at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is currently working with colleagues at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the University of Sheffield, to improve bean and soybean water deficit resilience, and has interests in using Crop Wild Relatives to enhance crop abiotic stress responses. After completing his doctorate and two postdocs at Sheffield on stomatal evolutionary development and signalling, Caspar went on to do a Newton Fund International Fellowship and then a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Fellowship at the Institute of Biotechnology, UNAM, Mexico. His translation approaches to improving legume drought responses won him the Newton Prize Mexico 2018 and the Rank Prize Nutrition Award 2020.'