Jana leads the GxExMxS team at ICRISAT (http://gems.icrisat.org/) with a main research focus on cropping systems improvement. She is responsible for integrating the knowledge of crop eco-physiology through modelling tools into the inter-disciplinary pipeline for crop improvement and enhanced agricultural production in semi-arid agro-ecological production systems (South Asia, West and Central Africa). Apart from application-oriented research, she conducts basic research on various aspects of plant water use to elucidate underlying processes of crop adaptation to water-limited environments.