About

Matt Liebman is a professor emeritus of agronomy and the former Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. His research, teaching, and outreach activities have focused on ways to use ecological processes to improve food security and environmental quality. Matt is a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, a subject editor for the journal Weed Research, a member of the board of directors for Practical Farmers of Iowa, and a contributor to publications and workshops of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has mentored 14 Ph.D. and 14 M.S. students. Prior to his employment as a faculty member at Iowa State University in 1998-2021, he served for 11 years on the faculty of the University of Maine. He received an undergraduate degree in biological sciences from Harvard University in 1978 and a doctorate in botany from the University of California–Berkeley in 1986. Please note that he is no longer supervising students.