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• Zimbabwe beckons Ken Giller

  science - 11-01-2018

• When the going gets tough...

  science - 30-01-2013 He had to fight to get his ideas about communicating plants accepted. When he couldn't find anyone to give a lecture on insects in art, he reinvented himself as an art connoisseur....

• Wageningen’s leading lights: Erwin Bulte

  organisation - 10-03-2016 A corrupt chief generates more progress than a village council. This was one of the surprising findings from Erwin Bulte’s study of power relations in African villages. The celebra...

• The hard science of soft matter

  science - 10-03-2011 Martien Cohen Stuart has turned research on soft matter into one of the most fruitful scientific fields in Wageningen. In both music and science, this distinguished professor belie...

• Spotlight: Evert Jacobsen: a breed apart

  science - 09-06-2011 For 35 years, he has worked at making potatoes better. He travels frequently to North Korea and is a fervent advocate of cisgenesis. But plant breeder Evert Jacobsen is first and f...

• Navel gazing is fatal

  science - 03-11-2011 We need a radical change from time to time, to keep us on our creative toes. That's Cees van Woerkum's view, anyway. His life's path has taken him from the role of fervent Trotskyi...

• Ecologist Marten Scheffer: The spirit must be free

  science - 22-03-2012 Scientific solutions are often found through cooperation and cross-fertilization, believes ecologist Marten Scheffer. That's why he works with economists, sociologists and brain sc...

• 'Efficient is my pet word'

  organisation - 05-07-2012 Shoulders to the plough. Work hard, even if it is at the expense of your social life. Between them, Ivonne Rietjens' brains and her cast iron work ethic have brought her internatio...

• A biologist with a mission

  science - 27-11-2014 In a portrait of Wageningen’s most famous biologist Arnold van Vliet you will expect some talk of nature. An even more inevitable topic is impact. Science for impact and the missio...

• Wageningen’s leading lights: Willem de Vos

  science - 26-03-2015 Microbiologist Willem de Vos studies how the microbes that live on and in us determine whether we are healthy or ill. He talks fast, thinks fast and always likes to be making progr...