Name: Robert Peter Walker Nationality: British Date of Birth: 20 December 1961 Address : Bolton, UK E mail: rob.walker@talktalk.net Academic Career 1980 - 1983: Department of Botany, University of Bristol BSc Botany: 1983 1986 - 1989: Weslsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth Doctoral studies with Prof CJ Pollock PhD: 1991 1989 - 1992: Department of Agricultural Sciences, Long Ashton Research Station University of Bristol Post-doctoral research with Dr R Hooley 1992 - 1996: Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield. Post-doctoral research with Prof RC Leegood 1996 - 2002: Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield. BBSRC Personal 5 year Fellowship 2003 -2021: Collaboration with Prof. Franco Famiani Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia Professional Activities Learned Societies Society for Experimental Botany. Member of the Plant Metabolism Committee (1998-2002). Editor of Special Issue of Journal of Experminetal Botany (2000): Compartmentation of Metabolism. Scientific interests Gluconeogenesis in plants. Regulation and functions of PEPCK in plants. Metabolism of carbohydrate, organic acids and nitrogenous compounds in plants. Fruit and seed physiology and biochemistry. Source-sink relationships in plants.