Dr Brent Kaiser is a Professor of Legume Biology and Molecular Genetics in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. He also holds the position of Director of the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub—Legumes for Sustainable Agriculture at the same place. From 2021 to 2024, he was a Director of the Sydney Institute of Agriculture. He received his BSc (Agriculture) and MSc (Plant Physiology) degrees from the University of Guelph (Canada) and his PhD (Plant Molecular Biology) from the Australian National University. His research interests focus on the regulation and control of plant nitrogen transport systems. His research topics include (i) nitrogen transport and assimilatory mechanisms that operate in plants to enhance the uptake and redistribution of inorganic nitrogen and (ii) symbiotic signaling that promotes symbiotic nitrogen fixation within the legume rhizobia symbiosis.