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Hannah Schneider is a root biologist and holds a joint position leading the ‘Genetics and Physiology of Root Development’ research group at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) and is a professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. She received her BSc from the University of Minnesota and her PhD from Pennsylvania State University. Using both genetic and physiological approaches her work aims to understand root anatomical and architectural adaptations of crop plants to drought and low fertility environments.