George Coupland

Who is George Coupland?

George Coupland FRS is a Scottish plant scientist, and Research Scientist and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

Coupland earned a First Class Honours from University of Glasgow in 1981, and PhD from University of Edinburgh in 1984. He was postdoctoral fellow at University of Cologne from 1985 to 1988. He was Research Group Leader at the Plant Breeding Institute, University of Cambridge, from 1989 to 1990. He was Research Group Leader at the John Innes Centre, from 1990 to 2001.

Coupland was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in May 2012.