Simon Hiscock

Simon Hiscock is a Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Garden and Arboretum at the University of Oxford. He studied Botany as an undergraduate at Oxford and subsequently carried out research for his DPhil at Oxford. Later he was awarded a David Phillips Research Fellowship from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and then moved to a Lectureship at the University of Bristol. He remained at Bristol for 15 years becoming Director of the University Botanic Garden and Professor of Botany. In 2015 he moved back to Oxford to become Director of the Botanic Garden and Arboretum. He oversaw the celebrations of the Garden’s 400th anniversary in 2021 and leads a fundraising campaign to raise money for new glasshouses.