Giles Oldroyd

Giles Oldroyd
Born
Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd
EducationUniversity of East Anglia
University of California, Berkeley
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Scientific career
FieldsPlant symbioses
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Stanford University
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
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 British plant scientist and president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. He previously served as a professor at the University of Cambridge, where he worked on 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. According to Clarivate Analytics, Oldroyd was listed among the top 1% of highly cited researchers in plant sciences in multiple years beginning in 2014.