Richard Brain is an environmental toxicologist at Syngenta Crop Protection and is primarily responsible for science strategy, internal and external research collaboration, and developing higher-tier experimental methodologies, approaches, and paradigms within the pesticide risk assessment space. He is a graduate of the University of Guelph and previous served as a research technician at the UG micro/mesocosm facility. He also served as a postdoctoral researcher at Baylor University.