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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Norbert Keutgen

Institute of Vegetables and Ornamentals
Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Wien
norbert.keutgen(at)boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-95217

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ORCID: 0000-0002-6625-5458

Curr. Vitae

2015 - Privatdozent at the Institute of Vegetables and Ornamentals at the Department of Crop Sciences of BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna. Teaching and research on chlorophyll fluorescence and plant factories
2008 - 2008 Senior Research Scientist at the Division of Tropical Crop Production at the Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn (Germany): teaching and research in the field of vegetation dynamics and ecovolume dynamics.
2008 - 2015 Head of the Division of Plant Physiology and basics of Plant Biotechnology at the Institute of Genetics, Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants at the Uniwersytet Technologiczno-Przyrodniczy im. Jana i Jędrzeja Śniadeckich, Bydgoszcz (Poland). Head of an NCN research project on the development of belemnites at the K / Pg boundary under aspects of climate change and evolution research (disturbance ecology).
2002 - 2008 Privatdozent and freelance researcher: teaching and research in the field of stress physiology, evolutionary biology and disturbance ecology for the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn (Germany) and the Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht (Netherlands).
1999 - 2002 Research Assistant at the Institute for Crop Science and Resource Conservation of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn (Germany): Head of my own DFG research project on the effects of increased tropospheric ozone concentrations on strawberry growth, yield and quality.
1998 - 1998 Post-doctoral researcher at the Division of Tropical Crop Production at the Institute of Horticulture at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn (Germany): yield-physiological studies on sweet potatoes.
1998 - 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Department of Radiation Research for Environment and Resources, Takasaki Radiation Chemistry Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan: Modelling and quantification of the transport of radioactive tracers in living plants; Development of a low-cost, ion chromatography-based analytical method for the quantitative determination of free amino acids and cations.
1997 - 1998 Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa: Pruning measures in apple trees to prevent sunburn damage on shadow leaves; comparative soil respiration studies of deciduous and evergreen fruit trees.
1995 - 1997 Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Horticulture at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Germany). Research on a DFG project on “the influence of ozone stress on strawberry”.
1994 - 1995 Employee for Trawigo-GmbH & Co. KG, Würselen (Germany): Development of a laboratory for aroma and food analysis; research on ingredients and marketability of products; quality management; public relations.
1990 - 1996 Doctoral thesis (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Institute of Paleontology of the RWTH Aachen (Germany) on the Lower Maastrichtian fauna in the Aachen area.
1989 - 1993 Diploma and Doctoral (Dr. agr.) theses at the Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere, Research Center Jülich (Germany), with studies on assimilate transport using 11C and 14C radioisotopes, among others on “host-parasite interactions”.

Statistik Austria, science classification

Climate change; Geoecology; Evolutionary research; Plant physiology; Photobiology; Horticulture; Vegetable growing; Fruit growing; Renewable resources;

Expertise

Plant physiology; Yield physiology; Stress physiology; Gas exchange; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Evolution of belemnites; Ecophysiology;

Awards

2014 Gruppenpreis des II. Grades der Uniwersytet Technologiczno-Przyrodniczy im. Jana i Jędrzeja Śniadeckich, Bydgoszcz (Polen) für besondere wissenschaftliche Leistung
2013 Forschungsförderung durch den Rada Nadzorcza Fundacji „Rozwój UTP“ (Aufsichtsrat der Stiftung „Entwicklung der UTP“) zur Weiterentwicklung der Abteilung, Polen
2013 NCN (Narodowe Centrum Nauki) – Forschungsprojekt zum Thema “Systematische Analyse der Vertreter der Belemnella kazimiroviensis-Gruppe in Westeuropa und der Ursachen und Umstände ihres Aussterbens ..."
2011 Individueller Preis des II. Grades der Uniwersytet Technologiczno-Przyrodniczy im. Jana i Jędrzeja Śniadeckich, Bydgoszcz (Polen) für besondere wissenschaftliche Leistung
2010 Gruppenpreis des I. Grades der Uniwersytet Technologiczno-Przyrodniczy im. Jana i Jędrzeja Śniadeckich, Bydgoszcz (Polen) für besondere wissenschaftliche Leistung
2010 Doctor habilitatus (Dr. hab.) verliehen durch das Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), Skierniewice, Polen
2002 Ernennung zum Privatdozenten an der Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Deutschland
2001 Venia Legendi für das Lehrgebiet Nutzpflanzenphysiologie verliehen durch die Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Deutschland
2000 Preis für das drittbeste Poster „Effect of chilling on growth and dry matter production of sweet potato“. Deutscher Tropentag 2000, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Deutschland
2000 DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) – Forschungsprojekt (Deutschland) zum Thema „Die ... Aktivierung des antioxidativen Systems zum Schutz vor Radikal-induziertem Stress ... [bei Erdbeere]"
1998 Stipendium der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung / des Japan International Science and Technology Exchange Center für einen Forschungsaufenthalt am Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Deutschland
1996 Doktor der Naturwissenschaften in Fach Geologie, Paläontologie verliehen durch die Fakultät für Bergbau, Hüttenwesen und Geowissenschaften der RWTH Aachen, Deutschland
1994 Doktor der Agrarwissenschaften verliehen durch die Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Deutschland
1990 Biologie-Diplom verliehen durch die Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der RWTH Aachen, Deutschland

Appointments/Memberships in Professional Societies

2018 - ALVA
member

Reviewer for scientific journals

2021 -2021 Antioxidants
2021 -2021 Plants
2020 -2021 Agronomy
2017 -2017 ACTA AGROBOTANICA
2016 -2016 Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca
2013 -2013 Acta Scientiarum Polonorum s. Agricultura
2012 -2012 Journal of Central European Agriculture
2011 -2012 Cretaceous Research
2011 -2020 Acta Geologica Polonica
2011 -2013 Acta Scientiarum Polonorum-Hortorum Cultus
2010 -2010 Plant Soil and Environment
2010 -2010 NETHERLANDS JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES-GEOLOGIE EN MIJNBOUW
2010 -2012 Palaeontology
2010 -2019 European Journal of Horticultural Science
2009 -2009 Journal of agricultural Science and Technology

Expert for external appointment/habilitation procedures

2014 Externe Habilitation: Gutachter: Fakultät für Gartenbau der Universität für Landwirtschaft im. Hugo Kołłątaja in Krakau (Polen)
2013 Externe Habilitation: Gutachter: Fakultät für Landwirtschaft und Biologie der SGGW in Warschau (Polen)

Reviewer/Expert funding organizations

2001 -2001 Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - United Kingdom
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