Neil Mattson, Ph.D.

Neil Mattson, Ph.D.

Neil Mattson is Professor in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University. Mattson is the director of Cornell’s Controlled Environment Agriculture program and academic principal investigator of the Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering (GLASE), a public-private consortium that de-risks adoption of energy efficient greenhouse technologies. Mattson’s research is focused on optimizing performance and resource use efficiency while increasing the profitability of vegetables, small fruits, and floriculture crops in protected environments. Specific research interests include strategies to reduce energy use in lighting through LED adoption and intelligent light controls, sustainable fertilization practices, and development of new CEA crops.