Alex A.R. Webb
Professor Alex A.R. Webb is a plant biologist whose computational, genetic, and physiological studies center around plant chronobiology. He currently serves as the head of the Circadian Signal Transduction Group in the University of Cambridge's Department of Plant Sciences researching circadian pathways and what regulates them. Education Professor Webb obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Stirling in Scotland between 1984 and 1988. Following this, from 1989 to 1992, he received a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from Lancaster University. Research positions Between 1992 and 1998, Professor Webb continued as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lancaster University. After this, he received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to work at the University of Cambridge from 1998 to 2007, and from 2004 to 2007 he was a lecturer as head of Circadian Signal Transduction Research Group. From 2007 to 2011, Professor Webb worked as a senior lecturer as the Head of the Circadian Signal Transduction Group at the University of Cambridge, where from 2011 he works as a reader and lectures on plant biology and intracellular signaling in plants. Awards Professor Webb has been awarded as a Membre Assocé Académie royale de Belgique (Associate Member of the