Wheat Breeder, Crop Development Centre – Curtis and his team have developed 12 wheat varieties since 2004 and have published over 70 manuscripts, including two publications in Science. He is a world-leader in the application of next-generation genomic technology to wheat breeding and in 2010 was named the Outstanding Young Researcher at the University of Saskatchewan and was bestowed the honor of Outstanding Young Agronomist by the Canadian Society of Agronomy. In 2018 he was selected as one of Germination’s Top 20 Influencers of the Canadian seed industry.