Lindsey Turnbull is Associate Professor at the Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, and Tutorial Fellow at Queen’s College Oxford. She is a plant ecologist who has engaged with a broad range of topics. Recent projects have included: interactions between plants and insects; the effects of organic farming on biodiversity and plant growth modeling. She has a particular focus on how and why plant species are so different from each other which raises questions such as why did these differences evolve and what are the consequences for ecosystems?