Jennifer Bromley

Vertical Future • Chief Scientific Officer

Dr Jen Bromley, Chief Scientific Officer at Vertical Future - a vertical farming company headquartered in UK with installations globally - has 18 years of experience in applied plant science. Her PhD from the University of Cambridge in Developmental Botany has led to a career spanning academia and industry having led research programmes at British American Tobacco. and carried out post-doctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (USA), University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and University of Cambridge (UK). At Vertical Future, Jen leads and carries out research activities that span plant science and engineering from indoor agronomy and smart plant manufacturing to plant physiology and biochemistry collaborating with academics and companies across the world to forward the reach and remit of vertical farming. In the furthest reach of Vertical Future’s technology, Jen led the UK Space Agency supported project “Autonomous Agriculture for Space Exploration” collaborating with researchers in ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space as well as industry partners Saber Astronautics and Axiom Space and the Government of South Australia. This project saw the development of automated plant health monitoring and parabolic flight testing of automated farming equipment.

Events

International Astronautical Congress 2025

29 September - 3 October 2025

Sydney, Australia

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