Matt Liebman

Matt Liebman is a professor of agronomy and the Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. He received an A.B. in biological sciences from Harvard University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California-Berkeley in1986, and became a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy in 2009. His research, teaching, and outreach activities focus on ways to increase soil, water, and wildlife conservation in farming systems, while reducing dependence on agrichemicals and fossil fuels.