Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Batley is a Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia. She is also an editor for Plant Pathology and The Plant Genome. She gained a BSc (Hons) in Biology from the University of Bristol, and an MSc from the University of Durham. She undertook her PhD studies at Long Ashton Research Station and was awarded a PhD from the University of Bristol, UK, in 2001. In 2002, she worked as a Senior Research Scientist at DPI-Victoria. She joined the University of Queensland as an ARC QEII Research Fellow in 2007. In 2014, she moved to the University of Western Australia to undertake her ARC Future Fellowship. She was awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2023 and currently leads a research group in crop genetics and genomics in the School of Biological Sciences, with a focus on disease resistance in Brassicas. She is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. She serves on the Editorial boards of BMC Genomics, Genes, Frontiers in Plant Science, Agronomy, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Theoretical and Applied Genetics and Biotechnology Advances.