Alexander Bucksch is an Associate Professor in the School of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona who develops plant phenotyping methods across all biological and ecological scales with an emphasis on plat roots. As a trained computer scientist, he developed his interest in plant biology & ecology during his undergraduate studies at the Brandenburg Technical University. Since then he developed computational methods to analyze plant morphology in the field as a PhD at the Delft Technical University and as a PostDoc at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently, his methods are used by thousands of users within the CyVerse cyberinfrastructure (http://plantit.cyverse.org). During his first faculty appointment at the University of Georgia, he was awarded the NSF CAREER Award, the Fred C. Davison Early Career Award and the Early Career Award of the North American Plant Phenotyping Network for his computational approaches to understand the functions of plant morphologies and their associated formation processes.