A native-born Tucsonan, Jordan Knapp-Wilson began his education as a student at UArizona, graduating May 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Molecular & Cellular Biology and a Bachelor of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Plant Sciences. Jordan worked in a wet molecular biology lab (Mark Beilstein Lab) while working on his undergraduate degree and completed a summer internship with UArizona faculty Dr. Duke Pauli. During this summer internship, Jordan developed a passion for plant breeding, as well as a keen interest in high-throughput plant phenotyping (HTPP) and phenomics. 

Jordan graduated with a PhD in Plant Breeding from the University of Georgia (UGA) in 2026. As a previous NAPB Borlaug 2019 Scholarship Award winner, Jordan is utilized terrestrial LiDAR technology to generate point cloud data of tree architecture in peaches in his PhD thesis. He is currently finishing up some papers from his PhD and searches for a PostDoc position to further the advancement of HTPP, with a focus on 3D computational modelling to better help growers and researchers implement automation for fruit production.