Biograph

Dr Veronique Decroocq is a senior scientist with extensive expertise in plant breeding, genetics and genomics, both for forest and fruit trees. She received her Ingenieur diploma in Agronomy from the University of Lille (France) in 1988. In 1994, she completed her PhD. in Genetics and Plant Molecular Biology, jointly between the University of Paris XI Orsay (France) and Wageningen Agricultural University (The Netherlands). Between 2015 and 2017, Dr Decroocq worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at the CSIRO (Canberra, Australia) on genetic engineering of Eucalyps.