Rate My Professor Pieter-Willem Hendriks

Pieter-Willem Hendriks is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Sciences at Lincoln University in New Zealand. His primary area of work is arable crop production, with a focus on phenotyping and breeding, including below-ground aspects of plant development. He aims to develop speed breeding and phenotyping capacity at the university.

Hendriks holds a PhD from Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, completed in association with CSIRO, and a Master of Agricultural Engineering from ENESAD in Dijon, France. Prior to his academic appointments, he worked as a farmer in France. He joined Lincoln University as a Lecturer in arable crop production following his doctoral studies. His research interests encompass agronomy, plant physiology, and metabolomics. Hendriks has contributed to publications on topics such as the introgression of early shoot vigour in wheat and its effects on root architecture, as well as assessments of wheat dwarfing genes and their influence on root traits. He has been involved in university initiatives including research related to solar farm projects for electricity generation and crop production. Hendriks maintains an active presence in academic networks and has accumulated citations for his work in these fields.