After acquiring a PhD in Mathematics from the University of York in 1997 Jon Hillier has worked on a range of crop modelling projects. Between 1999 and 2002 he was employed as a research scientist at the James Hutton Institute (formerly SCRI), developing plant-herbivore dynamic models for the risk assessment of GM crops. From 2002 and 2006 he worked at INRA in Grignon, France, and at University College London on architectural crop modelling and its uses in remote sensing for crop monitoring. In December 2006 he moved to the University of Aberdeen to work on assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from energy crop production on the TSEC-Biosys project. Over the last few years his main focus has been on the scientific development and application of greenhouse gas emissions from farming for both bioenergy and conventional food crops.

Environmental sustainability of food and bioenergy crops production. Modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture