Jeff is an ARC Future Fellow at Western Sydney University's Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, where he has been studying interactions among plants, fungi and soils since 2011. Before that he did his PhD at the University of Guelph in Canada, where he studied the effects of genetically modified crops on soil ecosystems and turned an impressive number of nonsignificant results into a thesis. In between he was a postdoc at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, where he managed to stay productive despite the city's fantastic beer gardens.