Board of Directors

Guido van den Ackerveken

Scientific director

Hedwich Teunissen

Programme director

Auke Damstra

Technology director

Support office

Anita ter Haar

Controller

Bernard de Geus

Liaison officer Potato

Hedwich Teunissen

Liaison officer Ornamentals

Jeroen Rouppe van der Voort

Liaison officer Vegetables

Rianne Ettekoven

Programme Assistant

Rachel Visscher

Communications advisor

Programmes and Leads

CropXR Research: Experimental research, analysis, modelling, societal impact

Kirsten ten Tusscher

C1: Demonstrator

Petra Bleeker

C2: Disease and Temperature

Christa Testerink

C3: Root stress

Ronald Pierik

C4: Trade-offs

Richard Immink

C5: Yield and Viability

Olga Scholten

C6: Storage organs

Koen Beumer

C7: Societal impact

Christoph Lofi

D: Data research

Dick de Ridder

T: Translator

Corné Pieterse

S1: Potato

Niels Anten

S1: Potato

CropXR Agro: Breeding for resilient cropping systems

Olga Scholten

Programme Lead

CropXR Data: Data Research & Data infrastructure 

Auke Damstra

Programme Lead

Marcel Reinders

AI technology coordinator

Christoph Lofi

Data management coordinator

Sören Wacker

Research engineer

Narges Yoesefi

Executive secretary

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