dr.ir. FWH (Frans) Kampers

After completing his PhD in physics in Eindhoven, the Netherlands Frans Kampers in 1989 joined what is now Wageningen University & Research. After management functions in instrumentation and measurement technology and information strategy he co-ordinated the  bionanotechnology research in Wageningen, which focuses on applications of nanotechnology in food and nutrition. He was chairman of the ISO working group that defined the international standard on animal RFID systems, was president of the International Society of Food Applications of Nanoscale Sciences (ISFANS) and a member of the Executive Board of NanoNextNL, the Dutch research programme on nanotechnology. He coordinated the Belgium/Netherlands region in the proposal for a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) for the European food sector, the research programme “High Tech to Feed the World”, has been involved in the EU project PicknPack and has assisted start-up companies to get to the seed phase. He is auhor of a vision document on how the agro-food system should transition to become future proof[1]. Currently he is mostly involved in facilitating National Growth Fund initiatives in which WUR is involved.

[1]   www.wur.nl/upload_mm/a/6/0/c2f49059-642e-4699-8be5-286ebb776557_FoodTransitions2030-A5-LR.pdf