Prof. Simon Krattinger

Professor Simon Krattinger is an Associate Professor of Plant Science and Chair of the Plant Science Program at KAUST. He earned his Ph.D. cum laude from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 2009 and has been recognized with prestigious awards, including a Marie Curie Fellowship and an Ambizione Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. His research integrates cutting-edge approaches in genomics, molecular genetics, bioinformatics, and phenomics to explore wheat evolution and mechanisms of resistance to biotic stresses.