BioDiscovery and Advanced Environmental Research EXPO 2025

Richard A. Dixon is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas. He also holds adjunct professorships at the University of Missouri at Columbia and Oklahoma State University at Stillwater. He was Distinguished Professor and Samuel Roberts Noble Research Chair, Senior Vice President and Founding Director of the Plant Biology Division at the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, where he worked from 1988-2013. He received his Bachelors’ and Doctoral degrees in Biochemistry and Botany from the University of Oxford, UK, and postdoctoral training in Plant Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK. He was awarded the Doctor of Science degree for his research achievements by the University of Oxford in 2004. His research has centered on the biochemistry, molecular biology and metabolic engineering of plant natural product pathways and their implications for agriculture and human health, and the engineering of lignocellulosic biomass for the improvement of forages and feedstocks for the bioeconomy. He has published over 540 papers and chapters on these and related topics in international journals, which have been cited over 100,000 times. Professor Dixon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (elected in 2018), Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (elected in 2007), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected in 2003), Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (elected in 2014), and Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists (elected in 2018) and has been named by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the 10 most cited authors in the plant and animal sciences. He was President of the American Society of Plant Biologists (2015-16) and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.