CV and Career

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CV and Career

• Evert Jacobsen
• Professor Plant Breeding
• Wageningen University and Research Center

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CV and education

• Primary school
• High School
• Wageningen University (Ir)
• Friedrich Wilhelm University (Dr. Ir)

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Career

• Military army
• Scientific assistant at Max Planck Institute for
  Plant Breeding
• PhD student (double function) (Bonn/Cologne)
• Staff member Genetics RUG
• Ordinary Professor Plant Breeding (Prof)

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Career within WageningenUR

• Professor 1988-
• Director Graduate School Exp. Plant
  Sciences1991-1998)
• Director Department of Plant Sciences (1997-2001)
• Science-Director Plant Scioence Group (2001-2004)
• Professor Plant Breeding and advisor

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Moments of Choice

• From MPI to Braunschweig, Lima or Groningen
• Choice for fundamental/applied research
• Founder of Grad. Schools in Wageningen
  (1991-1998)
• Management (1997-2005)
• Regulatory bodies Breeders rights and COGEM
• International (China, India and N. Korea)
• Science and society via cisgenesis, Transforum en
  prov. Limburg

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Advice

• Practice what you like and is of importance for
  you with brains
• Change of function is important
• Try others to convince about your passion
• Try to keep life in your own hand

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