Currently Rick van de Zedde is project manager of the new phenotyping facility NPEC @ WUR and he is senior scientist/ business developer Phenomics and Automation at the Wageningen Plant Science Group. He has worked at WUR since 2004. His background is in Artificial Intelligence with a focus on imaging and robotics.
Currently he is leading the development of the Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC) - www.npec.nl NPEC provides a versatile modular platform that will enable Dutch and international scientists, both academic and R&D, to carry out accurate high-throughput phenotyping: studies of plant performance in relation to relevant biotic and abiotic factors across a range of scales, from molecule to crop, from nm to km.
NPEC is an integrated, national research facility housed by Wageningen University & Research and Utrecht University and is co-funded by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for 10 years with a contribution of 11 million euros. The total costs of NPEC amounts up to 22 million euros.
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