HUGO de VRIES award 2019 The best botany-related PhD thesis in 2019
HUGO de VRIES award 2019
The best botany-related PhD thesis in 2019
• Scientific journal ‘Plant Biology’
• Excursions and symposia • Stipendium Bottelier
Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands
Aim: promote plant related research, knowledge, publications, and education in botany
Selection criteria
Qualitative • Coherence• Innovation• impact• new concepts• clearly written
Quantitative• impact and number of published chapters• other publications and presentations
Quality is leading !
HUGO de VRIES Award 2019
Jury:• Prof. Ronald Koes - UvAmsterdam• Prof. George Kowalchuk - Utrecht University• Prof. Jian Xu - Radboud University • Prof. Liesje Mommer - Wageningen University• Prof. Francine Govers chair - Wageningen University
Secretary:• Dr. Wouter Kohlen, Wageningen University
Five nominees
Ke Yu
E.O Dêêdi Sogbohossou
Bart van de Vossenberg
Quint Rusman
Antonella Petruzzella
The winner of the Hugo de Vries Award 2019
Wageningen University
Promotor: Prof. Paul Struik (Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University)
Co-promotor: Dr. Andy Jarvis (International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Quint Rusman
Wageningen UniversityLaboratory for Entomology
Promotor: Prof. Marcel DickeCo-promotors:Dr. Erik H. Poelman & Dr. Dani Lucas-Barbosa
Jury report PhD thesis Quint Rusman
Comments made by jury members
• ‘pioneering and conceptual’
• ‘scientific excellence’
• ‘excellent quality, level of innovation and a large body of data and analyses’
• ‘ambitious experimental set-up’
• ‘highly coherent chapters’
• Excellent publication record: Trends in Plant Science - Oecologia - Plant, Cell and Environment - Functional Ecology - Journal of Ecology
Presentation by Quint Rusman
https://weblectures.wur.nl/P2G/Player/Player.aspx?id=boCF6o