Authors - Colofon

Sander H. van Delden (PhD) is a Researcher at the Chair group Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen University and Research. His research interests are on general plant morphology and physiology, e.g. seed germination, time to flowering, leaf appearance rate and plant biomechanics. In the period 2011 to 2015 he was a lecturer on plant mineral nutrition at the Applied University of HAS den Bosch. From 2015 to 2018 he worked in a project designing research equipment for the International Space Station (ISS). His focus in this project was on plant-water-nutrient relations. In 2018 he started a project on the effects of Plasma Water usage in greenhouses, where the focus is on plant nitrogen relations.

Aafke Nijhuis

Aafke Nijhuis studied a BSc of food technology and a MSc of Nutrition & Health. During her studies she conducted research on iron deficiency in India and breastfeeding in Ecuador. After her studies she worked in Ethiopia to set up a large baseline study for an international NGO. Experience on course development came when she started to work with the Centre for Development Innovation. Here she worked in international projects and taught nutrition courses in different countries in Africa and Asia.

Nowadays Aafke works as a nutrition researcher at Wageningen University and Research. Her research focusses on food systems for healthy diets in low- and middle-income countries. 

Elise F. Talsma (PhD) is an assistant Professor at the Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen university and Research. Her research focuses on food and nutrition security applying a food system lens. Her BSc, MSc and PhD were obtained from Wageningen university and her PhD research was based on fieldwork in Kenya about the efficacy of yellow cassava on the improvement of vitamin A status in Kenyan primary school children. Before and after her studies she has lived in Asia, Africa and Latin America and worked for NGO’s, UNICEF and CIAT-Harvestplus. 

Julian Verdonk

Julian C. Verdonk (PhD) is a plant molecular biologist with a special interest for plant metabolites. His BSc, MSc, and PhD (2006) were obtained from the University of Amsterdam, and he did postdocs at the University of Florida (2006-2008), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008-2013), and the Universidad Andrés Bello in Santiago, Chile (2013-2014). From 2014 he is assistant professor at the Chair group Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, tenured since 2018. His research focusses on plant natural compounds (secondary metabolites), postharvest quality and how preharvest conditions influence quality.

Ric de Vos

Ric C.H. de Vos (PhD) is a senior scientist at the business unit Bioscience of Wageningen Plant Research., Wageningen University and Research. His BSc and MSc were obtained at the University of Amsterdam and his PhD from the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. Since 1992 he is working in Wageningen as researcher and project leader Plant Metabolomics. His research is mainly focussed on the analyses of plant metabolites and understanding the biosynthesis and molecular regulation of compounds that are important to crop and product quality traits such as stress resistance, taste and human health.