About Us
Who We Are
The VIB Agro-Incubator is a plant science and agricultural technology incubator at the former site of CropDesign (BASF). The site has been fully modernized by VIB with the support of the Flemish government, in consultation with ILVO, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. It houses now a very large, automated phenotyping facility, four lab units, a test field of two hectares and a robotic sprayer allowing to test the plant response to crop protection agents, biologicals, and biostimulants. We are in close collaboration with the VIB-UGent center for Plant Systems Biology and are part of the distributed plant phenotyping infrastructure EMPHASIS where we take the lead in establishing the central hub.
People
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Rafael Abbeloos
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Expert Software Developer
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Helena Beyaert
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Greenhouse Officer
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An Bombaert
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Sr. Officer - Site Services Coordinator
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Stijn Dhondt
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Lead of Operations
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Jelle Ducheyne
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Greenhouse Officer
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Juris Labee
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Facility Officer
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Veronique Storme
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Expert Data Scientist
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Germano Teixeira Gomes
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Expert Vision Engineer
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Bart Van Gansbeke
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Scientific Project Manager
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Mathias Willemijns
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Sr. Officer - Crop Manager
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Bruno Pollet
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Head of the Agro-incubator