Tim Bowles is an Assistant Professor of Agroecology/Sustainable Agriculture in the Department of Environmental, Science, Policy and Management at the University of California Berkeley. The primary question motivating his research is: How can reliance on ecological processes create productive, resilient, and healthy agricultural systems? With a primary focus on soil, he studies how agroecological approaches affect the plant-soil-microbial processes driving key ecosystem processes like nutrient cycling, nutrient retention, carbon accrual, and water capture and storage. His research also looks at how resilience emerges from these ecosystem processes, and through collaboration studies the socioeconomic drivers underlying barriers and opportunities for agroecological systems.