Prof. Trevor Roland Hodkinson earned his PhD degree from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 1995. Then, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew from 1995 to 1997. After that, he began working as a lecturer in Botany at Trinity College Dublin, where he was promoted to senior lecturer in 2006. Since 2010, he has been working as a professor there. His research mainly focuses on fields known as molecular systematics, genetic resource characterization, and endophyte biology. He has specialist knowledge of the grass family and forest tree genetics. He also collaborates with a number of national (Department of Agriculture, Teagasc) and international (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK) institutions.