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Linda M. Field

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Linda M. Field FRES FRSB is a British scientist noted for her work on insecticide mode of action and resistance. [1]

Field was awarded a PhD on the molecular basis of insecticide resistance at Rothamsted Research in 1989. She became leader of the Insect Molecular Biology Group at Rothamsted in 2002 and then Head of the Department of Biological Chemistry in 2010 (now Biological Chemistry and Crop Protection, BCCP).[2]

Since 2005 she has also been a Special Professor at the University of Nottingham. Field is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. She was also President of the Royal Entomological Society from 2008–2010.

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