Dr. Marta Pudzianowska, University of California, Riverside

Dr. Marta Pudzianowska has been working in warm-season turfgrass breeding program at the University of California, Riverside since 2017. Her efforts as a turf breeder focus on developing new bemudagrass and kikuyugrass cultivars with improved winter color retention and drought tolerance. Dr. Pudzianowska earned her master’s degree and doctorate in Horticulture at Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland.