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Prof. Jurgen Denecke

JurgenProfessor for Plant Cell Biology
and Biotechnology

Born and educated in Belgium, I moved to Sweden in 1991 and later to the UK in 1994. I speak German, Dutch, French, English, Portuguese, Spanish and a little Swedish, and look forward to learning more languages. I enjoy teaching, I’m interested in pure and applied research, I love unexpected results and try to resist peer pressure whenever it makes sense. When there is time, and when my team allows me, I work at the bench and do some of the experiments myself, mostly to explore some unexpected avenue of our research and usually related to the functioning of a gene product within the context of a viable cell. My hobbies include property development (kitchen, conservatories, greenhouses), the regular maintenance of an allotment with vegetables, reading books, cooking and baking, martial arts, building windsurf boards (slalom and wave) and of course windsurfing…

Degrees

1981

European Baccalaureate Certificate, section 'Mathematics, Science and modern languages, European School, Mol, Belgium.

1986

Engineer in Chemistry and Agriculture (equiv M. Sc), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

1991

PhD in Chemical Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium.

Career positions

Oct 86 - Sep 87

Employee of Plant Genetic Systems N.V., Josef Plateaustraat 22, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

Oct 87 - Dec 90

PhD student associated with the University of Ghent, Plant Genetic Systems N.V., Josef Plateaustraat 22, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

Jan 91 - May 92

Post-doctoral fellow at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Box 7003, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden

Jun 92 - Aug 94

Researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Box 7003, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden

Sep 94 - Dec 98

Lecturer at the University of York, Department of Biology, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK

Jan 99 – Aug 04

Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds, Department of Biology, Leeds LS2 9JT,UK

Sep 04 – Jul 07

Reader at the University of Leeds, Department of Biology, Leeds LS2 9JT,UK

Aug 07 – present

Professor at the University of Leeds, SBIO, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

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