Jennifer Hsiao graduated with her PhD from the Biology Department at the University of Washington. She studies how crops respond to projected changes in the climate system, the physiological mechanisms behind it, and strategies for mitigation and adaptation in agricultural systems facing a changing climate in 2022.

She has expertise at the intersection of plant ecophysiology and crop modeling, and links physiological knowledge rooted from greenhouse and field studies with the development, validation, and application of mechanistic crop simulation models.

Her current work uses this modeling approach to investigate how changes in temperature, humidity, CO$_2$ levels, and water availability can affect the complex physiological network within plants, how those changes impact crop growth and yield production, and leverages these mechanistic understandings to explore potential for adaptation through management and breeding practices.

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