List of positions - Dirk Inze 2023-current Emeritus Group Leader 'Innovative Breeding' at VIB-Ugent Center for Plant Systems Biology (Belgium) 2002 -2023 Science Director and Head of the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology (Belgium) 2002 - 2023 Full Professor at Ghent University (Belgium) Plant Biotechnology and Plant Physiology 1999-2002 Vice-Scientific Director of the Department of Genetics, Ghent University/VIB (Belgium) 1998-1999 Scientific Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the biotech company CropDesign (Belgium) 1993-1997 Guest Professor at Ghent University (Belgium) 1990-1998 Research Director (1st class) at the INRA (Institut National de La Recherche Agronomique) (France) 1984-1990 Junior Group Leader (FWO) at the Laboratory of Genetics of Ghent, Ghent University (Belgium) 1979-1984 PhD studentship with the Belgian Science Foundation (FWO), Ghent University (Belgium)