 I've done my degrees at the University of Gröttingen. I've done a Bachelor in Master's in Agricultural Science before I moved on to the University of TESAD in the UK where I studied a Master's in Management. My key research area is basically plant physiology within the agronomy section. So I basically look at the uptake of potassium into canola and see how it's sort of affecting or improving drought tolerance to effectively have a greater yield in the end for the farmers. I choose to come to Perse because I traveled around Australia for a while and had a look at other universities and talked to a couple of potential supervisors. And I just happened to like the people I met here. I like them the best, basically, and also like the facilities. And moreover, obviously Perse is a great place just to live and spend your free time. Talking about the facilities at UWI, I think they're great facilities because they have got a range of different types of growing environment that we can simulate. Like we've got growth chambers, but we also got glass houses with growing lights and without. So you can actually set certain temperatures and humidity in the facilities so that you actually mimic the ideal situation that you want your plants to be growing in. So I think that's a fantastic thing to happen. And also we've got automated irrigation system. So ideally you could put your seeds into the soil, walk away, and have the system watering your plants automatically, and then you come back and then you start your measurements. Not as easy, but it's quite sophisticated. And I mean, there's a lot of good staff around that is supporting you during the experiments as well. And then also because we are really closely located to the wheat belt of Australia, we obviously had the chance to conduct field experiments as well within reach of the city. After I finished my PhD, I would really like to help and do that translational research because there's a great knowledge in science. But the implementation into agriculture is not as good because agriculture is a very traditional sector. So I would like to start my own farm together with my brother and also do some consulting just to have that latest research started somewhere on a farm and then use our farm as a sort of model farm to inspire other farmers.