Ronald Plasterk
Personal information
Full name:
Plasterk, R.H.A. (PvdA)
Place and date of birth:
Den Haag, 12 April 1957
City:
Bussum
Seniority:
701
Age:
55
Gender:
Male
Parliamentary Party:
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 (USA), 1984 - 1985
- Researcher at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK), 1985 - 1986
- Director Oncology Research School, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, 1989 - 2000
- Extraordinary professor of molecular microbiology, VU University, Amsterdam, 1993 - 1997
- 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
