Dr. Eric Bishop-von Wettberg received a B.A. in biology from Swarthmore College in 1999 and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Brown University in 2007. He was an NIH National Research Service Award postdoc at the University of California at Davis from 2007 to 2009. He served on the faculty at Florida International University from 2010 to 2017. He is now the Director of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station and a Professor in the Department of Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment at the University of Vermont, with a research program focused on understanding crop domestication as a means to harness the diversity of wild crop relatives to breed crops with improved climatic resilience and stress tolerance.