Dr Mark Lee

Farms deliver benefits to society, such as provisioning (e.g., food production and raw materials), regulating (e.g., soil protection and carbon storage), supporting (e.g., wildlife habitat and genetic diversity), and cultural (e.g., aesthetic inspiration, tourism and health) ecosystem services. Although some new farming systems enhance the delivery of ecosystem services, many do not, causing detrimental impacts on our environment. Innovative scientific techniques and technologies offer solutions, increasing productivity, optimising the delivery of valuable ecosystem services, and improving the sustainability of the sector. I am using state of the art technologies and techniques, including chamber and field experiments, robotics, networked microsensors, machine learning and advanced data modelling to research livestock and arable farming. I am particularly interested in using these techniques to generate novel ideas which can be used on farms to increase food production, reduce environmental degradation, tolerate our changing climate and increase the delivery of ecosystem services, such as providing habitat for wildlife and storing carbon. 

• PhD, Imperial College London, 2013
• MSc, Imperial College London, 2009
• BSc (Hons), Univ. Bristol, 2002