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Prof. Dr. Dirk Inzé Full Professor at Ghent University and Scientific Director of the VIB, Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium. Dirk Inzé’s research ambition is to decipher the complex molecular networks regulating plant organ growth and crop productivity. Research is performed both on maize and the model plant Arabidopsis. Dirk Inzé graduated in 1979 at Ghent University, where he also received his PhD in 1984. In 1990 he was appointed Research Director of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), where he initiated highly successful research programs on the cell cycle and growth control in plants. In 1995 he became Professor at Ghent University. Dirk Inzé was the scientific founder of the biotechnology company CropDesign, which was established in 1998 and acquired in 2006 by BASF Plant Science. In 2002 Dirk Inzé was appointed Director of the Department of Plant Systems Biology of the VIB. Under his directorship, the VIB, Department of Plant Systems Biology, currently employing 300 persons, became one of the world leading centers for advanced plant sciences. In 1994 Dirk Inzé was laureate of the Körber Stiftung Prize (Germany) and in 2003 he became EMBO member. Later, in 2005, he was laureate of the Belgium Francqui Prize and became elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He was awarded the prestigious five-yearly Doctor A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize for Exact Sciences in 2010. In 2013, he received an Advanced ERC grant. Dirk Inzé has served on numerous scientific committees, editorial boards and science advisory boards and has been an invited speaker at more than 150 internationally renowned conferences. In 2012 he became the Chair of the Life Science Committee of the important science policy organization, Science Europe |
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