I study how plants are affected by climate change and how this in turn impacts the world's carbon cycle and feeds back to the climate. I use land surface models to understand current plant and ecosystem observations and make predictions about the future. I completed my PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2013, where I built a global model of leaf phenology. After this, I spent 2 years at Microsoft Research Cambridge in the Computational Ecology lab, looking at general models of crop growth. From 2015 to 2022, I was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, where I contributed to the QUINCY model and started looking at ecosystem nutrient limitation and effects of elevated CO2 on plant physiology. I joined Trinity in summer 2022.