Alexander Bucksch joined the University of Arizona in 2023 as an Associate Professor and PI of the Computational Plant Science Lab in the School of Plant Sciences. He came from the University of Georgia where he was a presidential hire, jointly between Bioinformatics, Plant Biology and Forestry. He has a PHD from Delft University of Technology and was Postdoc at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he developed algorithms to characterize plant morphology from organismal to ecosystem level, above- and below-ground. In his current research, he develops imaging and simulation approaches to explain and characterize the function of natural variation in agricultural plants. His work has been funded by the US National Science Foundation NSF) the advanced research project agency for energy arpa-e) and several public-private partnerships. He has published more than 50 papers in refereed venues with over 2300 citations, edited four books and released plant phenotyping platforms such as Digital Imaging for Root Traits DIRT) and PlantIT which are used by over 1000 plant researchers and breeders world-wide. Alexander Bucksch’s research was recognized with an NSF CAREER award, the Early Career Award of the North American Plant Phenotyping Network and the Fred C. Davison Early Career Scholar Award.