dr.ir. W (Wopke) van der Werf

I am an associate professor in the crop and weed ecology group. Mijn main areas of research (1) ecology, productivity and resource use efficiency in mixed cropping systems, (2) ecology of pests, natural enemies, pathogens and pollinators in agricultural landscapes, (3) invasion ecology of plant pests and diseases. I obtained my engineer (ir.) degree in Crop Protection in 1983 with a focus on entomology, epidemiology of plant pathogens, ecological modelling and statistics, and use these methods in my current research. I obtained my PhD degree in the groups Virology and Theoretical Prodution Ecology (1988) on the basis of field research on the spread of yellowing viruses in sugarbeet. I supervise approximately 20 PhD students, many of them in collaboration with partners in China. I am involved in three EU projects, IntercropVALUES, Adopt-IPM and PHENET, and in an ERC-funded project, FRESHH.