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Rate My Professor Hervé Vanderschuren

KU Leuven

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5.05/4/2026

Encourages students to explore new ideas.

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About Hervé

Hervé Vanderschuren is Professor of Crop Biotechnics in the Department of Biosystems at KU Leuven, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering. He heads the Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, which maintains a long tradition in banana research and hosts the Banana World Collection in collaboration with Bioversity International. Vanderschuren obtained his PhD in Plant Biotechnology from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and his MSc in Plant Genetics from AgroParisTech, France. He was appointed Professor in the Department of Biosystems at KU Leuven in 2019 and also holds a position as Professor of Plant Genetics at the University of Liège. His research expertise includes crop biotechnics, genetic engineering of plant resistance genes, plant virology, banana and cassava improvement, soil health, agro-ecological approaches, single cell omics, transposable elements, eccDNA, and virus susceptibility factors. Core research interests encompass plant improvement through conventional and precision breeding, plant molecular responses to biotic and abiotic stresses, epigenome modulation upon stresses, transposable elements and genome variation, ex-situ plant conservation including field collections, in vitro and cryopreservation, technology transfer to laboratories in the tropics, and farming systems with a focus on plant nutrition.

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