Crop Science and Agriculture

Jeffrey Bennetzen has completed his PhD in 1980 from the University of Washington in Seattle. He then pursued his studies as Postdoctoral Fellow in a shared position between Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked as a Faculty Member at Purdue University. He moved to the

University of Georgia to take his current position as the Giles Eminent Scholar Chair of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics. He has also been a Professor at Anhui Agricultural University. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals. He is an elected Fellow of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.