Ben Scheres - Curriculum Vitae#

EDUCATION

• 1990 PhD Department of Molecular Biology/Wageningen University/NL
  
• 1985 Master Plant Pathology/Wageningen University/NL; cum laude
  
• 1983 Bachelor Plant Pathology/Wageningen University/NL; cum laude
  
• 1978 Gymnasium-β/Bisschoppelijk college Sittard/NL

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• 1999 - 2012 Full Professor Dpt. of Biology/Utrecht University/NL
  
• 2013 - 2015 Professorial Research Fellow Dpt. Biomedical & Life Sciences/Cardiff University/UK
  
• 2010 - 2016 External Faculty Member/John Innes Institute/UK
  
• 1994 - 1999 Associate Professor Dpt. of Molecular Cell Biology/Utrecht University/NL
  
• 1990 - 1994 Assistant Professor Dpt. of Molecular Cell Biology/Utrecht University/NL
  
• 1989 - 1990 Postdoctoral Fellow Plant Genetics Laboratory/Ghent University/BE

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• 1991 - 1999 Lecturer & Course instructor/Genetics/Developmental Biology/ Utrecht University/NL
  
• 1999 - 2012 Professor/Molecular Genetics/Developmental Genetics/ Utrecht University/NL
  
• 1999 Instructor Cold Spring Harbor Plant Biology Course/USA
  
• 2001 and 2003 Instructor Gulbenkian Institute EMBO Course on Plant Signalling/PT
  
• 2012 Instructor John Innes Institute EMBO course on Computional Modelling/UK
  
• 2012 - 2017 Professor/Developmental Biology/Systems Biology/Wageningen University/NL
  

After PhD work in plant-microbe interactions, Ben Scheres developed as an independent PI from 1990 onward the Arabidopsis root as a model system for multidisciplinary dissection of developmental mechanisms in plants. For decades, his group included PhD students originating from other scientific disciplines engaged in computational modeling and mathematical analysis of the pattern formation mechanisms that we study. Additional connections to theorists have been established in Wageningen, Norwich, Cardiff and Cambridge. As a result, the group has become capable of studying gene regulatory networks in spatiotemporal context at a level of sophistication that is at the forefront of plant research.

Since 2018, Ben Scheres is also active as Research Manager of the Biotechnology department at the family owned breeding company Rijk Zwaan, with ~4000 employees worldwide. Here, he tries to implement academic knowledge in the pursuit to produce better varieties of vegetable crops.