Mark Tester

Mark Tester is a botanist and Professor of Plant Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. Prof. Tester is a Highly Cited Researcher in the Plant Sciences, with research foci extending across abiotic stress in plants, agricultural innovation, genetics, and phenotyping. He has published more than 300 scientific articles, with total article citations in excess of 40,000, and has published multiple times in two world-leading scientific journals, Science and Nature. Prof. Tester is also CSO and co-founder of Red Sea Farms, an Agtech company developing and delivering environmentally sustainable, saltwater-based agricultural systems.