Harberd was a scientist at the
Plant Breeding Institute in
Trumpington, Cambridgeshire from 1982 to 1986, and the
University of California, Berkeley, from 1986 to 1988. Harberd led his laboratory, which was located at
John Innes Centre, and subsequently at the
University of Oxford from 2007. Harberd's research has been published in leading journals including
Nature,
Science, and
Development. With
George Coupland,
Liam Dolan,
Alison Smith,
Jonathan Jones,
Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook
Plant Biology.
Awards and honours Harberd was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009. His nomination reads: ==References==