Harkingto is a PhD candidate at NMBU Plant Science Department. He is working in DIVERSILIENCE project that aims to improve the productivity and resilience of organic crop production by better utilization of crop diversity, through research collaboration across Europe. His focus in this project is to develop genomics tools and high-throughput phenotyping system for Lucerne breeding pipeline and to study the crop adaptation mechanisms in Nordic climate. Prior to his PhD candidate position at NMBU, he completed his master in France and was involved in a molecular breeding project for tropical crops in Indonesia and France.