Kaz Uyehara is a plant ecologist studying the collective “behavior” of plants. He received his Ph.D. from the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department at Princeton University in 2019. His previous research was focused on game theory models of plants and the adaptive significance of the self-organization of plant form. Kaz’s postdoctoral research uses theoretical, computational, and experimental techniques to investigate how plants in the genus Helianthus respond to competition at the scale of the organ, whole plant, and plant community. His aim is to study plant ecology by conceptualizing plant growth and form as emergent phenomena.