
Dooley Professor, Horticultural Physiology
Department of Horticulture
1111 Miller Plant Sciences Building
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-7273
706-583-0284
706-542-0624
mvanier@uga.edu
Professional experience
- 2017 – current: Dooley Professor, Department of Horticulture , University of Georgia, Athens, GA
- 2006 – 2017: Professor, Department of Horticulture , University of Georgia, Athens, GA
- 2006 – current: Graduate coordinator, Department of Horticulture , University of Georgia, Athens, GA
- 2002 – 2006: Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
- 2000 – 2002: Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture, Griffin Campus, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA
- 1995 – 2000: Assistant Professor, Department of Horticulture, Griffin Campus, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA
- 1994 – 1995: Post-doctoral research fellow. Crop Physiology Laboratory, Department of Crops, Soils, and Biometeorology, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Awards
- 2021 Significant contributor award, NCERA-101 USDA regional project on controlled environment technology and use
- 2021 Kenneth Post Award, awarded by the ASHS Floriculture working group and the Kenneth Post Foundation for best graduate student paper in an ASHS journal (with Claudia Elkins)
- 2021 Greenhouse Grower Innovation of the Year award, awarded to Candidus for their adaptive lighting control system
- 2019 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Research, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia
- 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year, University of Georgia Research Awards
- 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 Recognized by the UGA Career Center ‘for greatly contributing to the career development of UGA students’
- 2018 Elected fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science
- 2018 Porter Henegar Memorial Award for Horticultural Research. Awarded by the Southern Nursery Association
- 2017 Named Vincent J. Dooley Professor of Horticulture (endowed professorship)
- 2017 ASHS Outstanding Cross-Commodity Publication Award
- 2016 Outstanding graduate educator of the year, American Society for Horticultural Science.
- 2016 Alex Laurie Award (most significant applied floriculture research paper published in an ASHS journal). Awarded by AmericanHort.
- 2011 Georgia Green Industry Association Friend of the Environment Award
- 2007 Kenneth Post Award, awarded by the ASHS Floriculture working group and the Kenneth Post Foundation for best graduate student paper in an ASHS journal (with Stephanie E. Burnett and Paul A. Thomas).
Educational background
- Ph.D. Department of Agronomy, University of Arkansas, 1994
- M.S. Department of Horticulture, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1989