Messium brings together deep expertise in remote sensing, machine learning, crop science, and commercial agriculture.
A third-time founder with two successful exits behind him, George leads Messium's commercial strategy and vision. He founded Messium with a clear conviction: that farmers deserve lab-quality crop information, delivered automatically, every week.
A second-time founder with previous awards from NASA, ESA, the UN and Research Councils UK. Vishal leads Messium's product & technology - from satellite data pipelines and machine learning to crop growth modelling and user experience.
Research areas include increasing crop yields sustainably, optimising nitrogen nutrition, precision farming technologies, lodging control and plant growth regulation. Author of 40 peer-reviewed papers on crop physiology.
Professor at Purdue University specialising in digital and precision agriculture, crop systems, yield formation and nitrogen dilution curves - the relationship between crop nitrogen concentration and biomass.
Professor of Crop Science at Aarhus University, specialising in the intersection of crop modelling, remote sensing, and sustainable agroecological systems.