Here I outline my passion in sciences. Read my works on ORCID or Google Scholar. Last updated in October 2024

Intellectual Vitality

Interests

• Plant Physiology - How do plants use sunlight to turn air, water, and dirt into food?
• Science Education & Community engagement
• Food system optimization
• Climate change mitigation strategies
• Data-driven agricultural management
• Plant-based/alternative protein food

Core Skills

Plant Physiology

Plant growth analysis, Gas exchange measurements, Yield component analysis, Phenotyping responses to abiotic stresses

Crop production

Experiment design, Controlled environments (greenhouse, growth chamber), Hydroponics, Farm management

Plant Breeding & Genetics

Genome-wide Association Studies, QTL mapping, Joint-linkage mapping, functional characterization of candidate genes, Transformation

Biotechnology

PCR, Cloning, Gel electrophorysis, Cell & Tissue culture

Statistical analyses

Summary Statistics, Hypothesis testing, Modelling (Mixed Models, Uni/Multivariate), Diverse toolkits (R/SPSS/GenStat)

Project management

Writing proposal/report, Planning, Compliance (esp. Lab safety), Leading multicultural/multidisciplinary team

Educational management

Curriculum development, Online/in-person instruction, Inclusive learning, Tutoring (biology, chemistry, statistics)

Communication

English (Professional), Thai (Native), Spanish (Intermediate), Chinese (Conversational), R (Functional)

Current Positions & Active Projects

• Researcher at Joint Bioenergy Institute, University of California, Berkeley
• Light, Sugar, Caution! - A meta-analysis and cautionary review on translating and interpretting results from Arabidopsis experiments on agar plates for crop production
• Plant Sciences for All - An open-source curriculum to help everyone understand the plant world!
  

Past Projects

• Mission N-Possible - Influence of Nitrogen Forms on Small Grain Crop Carbon Assimilation, providing genetic and management strategies to sustain nutritional qualities of food crops to meet the challenge of Climate Change!
  • An open-access copy of my Ph.D. dissertation is available on ProQuest (may require log-in) and eScholarship (publicly accessible!)! I digested the key insights and shared my perspective on sciences in just 50 minutes here on AggieVideo!.
  • I made an app to visualize FAO’s data on “Where do we get protein in our daily diets?”
  • I shared my research on the big stage at American Society of Plant Biologists’ annual meeting 2023 “What would a plant eat for lunch?”
  • Watch my award-winning talk “Mission N-Possible”

• Foodshot 2.0 Precision Protein Challenge, I worked with Foodshot Global, a NYC-based venture capital aggregator to launch a quest to find the ‘moonshot’ ideas for our global food system, as part of the Grad Innovator Fellowship 2020.
• What makes modern tomato much more productive than 50 years ago? - Yield Component Analysis of Dutch Greenhouse Tomato (Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen University).
• What happens when plants drink salty water? - Functional characterization of candidate loci for salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana (Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University).
• Adaptable, Adoptable, & Affordable - I helped farmers in Thailand grow the new high-value orchid by figuring out what local growing materials can help plants better deal with limited water resource - Vanilla seedling establishment (Department of Horticulture, Kasetsart University).

Education

• Ph.D. in Horticulture and Agronomy, with emphasis on Plant Physiology and Plant Breeding - University of California, Davis, The United States of America
  
• M.S. in Plant Sciences with a specialization in Greenhouse Horticulture, with cum laude - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  
• B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences, with 1st class honors - Kasetsart University, Thailand
  

Training & Workshop

• Food, Ag and Health Entrepreneurship Academy 2018 (UC Davis)
• Leaders for the future (UC Davis)
• Modern Programming in Genomic Prediction Short Course (UC Davis)
• PlantingScience Digging Deeper: Developing a Model for Collaborative Teacher/Scientist Professional Development (Botanical Society of America and American Society of Plant Biologists, 2017)
• Wilderness First Aid & American Heart Association CPR
• Graduate coursework
  • UC Davis - Field Techniques in Plant Physiology, Applied multivariate modelling in agricultural and environmental sciences
  • Wageningen University - Advanced Methods for Plant-Climate Research in Controlled Environments, Greenhouse Technology, Physiology and Development of Plants, Quantitative Aspects of Crop production, Product Quality and Post-harvest Physiology