Ronald Plasterk

Committees

• Finance
• Public Expenditure committee
• Transport, Public Works and Water Management

Education

• Pre-university education (gymnasium-b, science subjects), Roman Catholic Sint Janscollege, The Hague, to 1975
• Economics (propaedeutic year), University of Amsterdam, to 1981
• Biology, Leiden University, to 1981
• Doctorate: Natural Sciences, Leiden University,1984

Career

• Assistant at the biomedical institute, Leiden University,1981 - 1984
• Municipal councillor, Leiden, 11 October 1982 - 1 September 1984
• Researcher at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1984 - 1985
• Researcher at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, 1985 - 1987
• Board member of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, 1987 - 1989
• Director Oncology Research School, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, 1989 - 2000
• Extraordinary professor of molecular microbiology, VU University, Amsterdam, 1993 - 2003
• Professor of genetics, University of Amsterdam, 3 July 1997 - 1 April 2003
• Director, Hubrecht Laboratory/Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Utrecht, February 2000 - 22 February 2007
• Professor of Developmental Genetics, Utrecht University (Academic Biomedic Centre), 1 May 2000 - 22 February 2007
• Minister of Education, Culture and Science, 22 February 2007 - 23 February 2010