Dr Chris Saunders is an Agricultural Research Engineer and has a PhD in engineering soil dynamics related to the mouldboard plough from Cranfield University in the UK. He has over 20 years’ experience in engineering research of agricultural machinery and technologies in Australia with much of his research contributing to engineering for sustainable and resilient agriculture. More recently his research has focussed on tillage and amelioration machinery to overcome soil constraints in sandy soils and landscapes across grain growing areas of Australia. Chris has expertise in mechanical and machinery solutions for a wide range of agricultural practices and his work includes simulation of soil tool interactions with Discrete Element Method (DEM) to evaluate amelioration machinery, technology and techniques to help growers improve the yield potential of their land.