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