Leadership

Ellis Hoffland

Is personal professor at the Department of Soil Quality of Wageningen University. Her specialization is soil fertility and soil-plant interactions. She prefers to regard soil fertility as the result of biogeochemical cycles of nutrient elements and carbon. The link with carbon is obvious: soil fertility is intricately related to soil organic matter. Her motivation to study these cycles is their relevance to food production. She is specifically interested in the role that plant roots and soil organisms play in these cycles. Given her background as a biologist and her position in the Soil Biology and Biological Soil Quality Group, her natural bias is towards the biological aspects of these cycles and, more specifically, of soil-plant interactions. But whenever relevant and possible (i.e. almost always) she tries to include chemistry. Her main teaching activities include the BSc course Soil-Plant Interactions and the MSc course Nutrient Management.

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E-mail: Ellis.Hoffland@wur.nl

 
Visiting address:
Atlas Building
Droevendaalsesteeg 4
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
 
T +31-317-482115
F +31-317-426101
 
Postal address:
P.O. Box 47
6700 AA Wageningen
The Netherlands

 

Wim van der Putten

Graduated at Wageningen University in 1984 with a degree in ecology and then moved to the Institute for Ecological Research at Oostvoorne, The Netherlands. In 1989 he gained his PhD at Wageningen University and held several positions at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO). Currently, he is head of the Terrestrial Ecology Department at NIOO and extraordinary professor in Functional Biodiversity at Wageningen University. Wim’s main interest is in aboveground-belowground multitrophic interactions, plant-soil feedback, succession, biodiversity, invasions, and climate change-induced range shifts. In 2003/4 he was guest at Landcare Research in Palmerston North and Lincoln, New Zealand. From 1992 onwards, he has been coordinator of a number of EU-projects (e.g. EUREED 1993-1995, CLUE 1996-1998 and INVASS 1996-1998, EcoTrain 2002-2006), and was partner in several others (TLinks, Biorhiz, Consider, Soilservice, EcoFINDERS). In 2004, he was awarded a VICI grant from the Netherlands Research Council (NWO-ALW) in order to study consequences of rapid range shifts due to current climate warming. In 2012, he received an ERC-Advanced Grant to study how communities become re-assembled following climate warming. Wim has strong preference for approaches of ecological problems that will yield both novel fundamental insights and applications. Besides many scientific papers, he has co-authored an overview report on soil biodiversity for the EC DGXI, and is co-editor of the European Atlas of Soil Biodiversity .

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E-mail: W.vanderPutten@nioo.knaw.nl

Visiting address:
Droevendaalsesteeg 10
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
T +31-317-473400
F +31-317-473675

Postal address:
P.O. Box 50
6700 AB Wageningen
The Netherlands
 

Jos Raaijmakers

Is head of the Microbial Ecology Department of NIOO-KNAW. His main interest is to unravel the diversity, dynamics and functions of microorganisms associated with plants.

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E-mail: j.raaijmakers@nioo.knaw.nl

Visiting address:
Droevendaalsesteeg 10
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
T +31-317-473400
F +31-317-473675

Postal address:
P.O. Box 50
6700 AB Wageningen
The Netherlands

 

Willem Jan de Kogel

Is Business Unit Manager at WUR Biointeractions and Plant Health.

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