Currently, Professor Dr Gerrit Hoogenboom is a Preeminent Scholar in the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, and Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida, USA. Prior to joining the University of Florida, he was the AgWeatherNet Program Director and Professor of Agrometeorology at Washington State University. Also, Dr. Gerrit Hoogenboom has over 30 years of experience in developing crop simulation models and decision support systems. Those models' applications range from freeze forecasting to climate variability and climate change, water resources management, biofuels, economic and environmental sustainability, and food security. 

He currently coordinates the development of the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT), one of the most popular crop modeling systems across the world. Dr. Gerrit Hoogenboom frequently organizes and facilitates international training workshops on crop modeling and decision support systems.

Furthermore, Dr Gerrit Hoogenboom has published over 400 scientific papers in refereed journals as well as numerous book chapters and proceedings. Since 2019, he is the Editor-in-Chief for The Journal of Agricultural Science in Cambridge.