Our team
Board of Directors
Guido van den Ackerveken
Scientific director
Hedwich Teunissen
Programme director
Auke Damstra
Technology director
Support office
Yeun Yow Chen-Wu
Controller
Jeroen Rouppe van der Voort
Liaison officer Vegetables
Bernard de Geus
Liaison officer Potato
Rianne Ettekoven
Programme Assistant
Hedwich Teunissen
Liaison officer Ornamentals
Rachel Visscher
Communications advisor
Programmes and Leads
• CropXR Research: Experimental research, analysis, modelling, societal impact
Kirsten ten Tusscher
C1: Demonstrator
Ronald Pierik
C4: Trade-offs
Koen Beumer
C7: Societal impact
Corné Pieterse
S1: Potato
Petra Bleeker
C2: Disease and Temperature
Richard Immink
Christoph Lofi
Niels Anten
S1: Potato
Christa Testerink
C3: Root stress
Olga Scholten
C6: Storage organs
Dick de Ridder
T: Translator
• CropXR Agro: Breeding for resilient cropping systems
Olga Scholten
Programme Lead
• CropXR Data: Data Research & Data infrastructure
Auke Damstra
Programme Lead
Sören Wacker
Research engineer
Marcel Reinders
AI technology coordinator
Narges Yoesefi
Executive secretary
Christoph Lofi
Data management coordinator
• CropXR Education: Knowledge development and human capital
Christa Testerink
Programme Lead
Atoesa Farokhi
Coordinator
Roos van Maanen
Financial coordinator
• CropXR Transfer: Knowledge transfer & future application projects
Guido van den Ackerveken
Programme Lead
Interested in joining our team? Visit cropxr.org/careers