Plant Biology Institute

Plant Biology Institute

Feeding the world’s growing population in the face of climate change by enabling every farm on earth to produce more food with fewer resources and less land.

Head of Transformation Facility

Dr Tanveer Khan

Dr Tanveer Khan is Head of Transformation Facility at the Plant Biology Institute at EIT. She is building a state-of-the-art plant transformation platform to remove a key bottleneck in crop innovation, enabling scalable editing and trait delivery.

With more than twenty years of global experience across the United Kingdom, Brazil, Singapore, and USA, she has delivered several technological innovations for AgTech. Her experience spans transformation of complex plant species, CRISPR based platforms, artificial seed technologies, controlled environment agriculture (CEA), application of AI & machine learning models for cell and plant growth. She has held roles at DuPont Pioneer, CTC, Tropic Biosciences, and Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), and has led multidisciplinary teams to deliver commercially validated products across diverse crops. She combines scientific depth with strategic leadership, enabling collaborations that connect academic research & industry.

She holds a PhD in Plant Physiology, from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, and an Executive MBA from Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia. She is passionate about developing novel solutions to address global challenges like climate change and food security using multidisciplinary advanced scientific technologies.

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The PBI team aims to improve global food production and biosphere health through advances in plant science research. Our work integrates cutting-edge technologies spanning AI and synthetic biology with advanced genome editing to develop climate resilient plants. The goal is to produce more food from less land using fewer resources, such as nitrogen fertilisers. By combining fundamental research with applied innovation, we can accelerate the translation of discoveries into scalable agricultural solutions. In doing so, we lay the foundation for a more resilient and regenerative agricultural future that benefits both people and the planet.

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"As a software engineer for MLOps within the AI & Robotics Institute, I help turn pioneering AI research into scalable, deployable systems. I’m driven by EIT’s long-term vision, rare funding model and brilliant community creating sustainable global solutions. Here, I’m trusted to grow through real autonomy and opportunities."

—Jade HartleySoftware Engineer