Gerrit Hoogenboom

Professor and Preeminent Scholar, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Gerrit Hoogenboom has over 30 years of experience in the development and application of dynamic crop simulation models and decision support systems.  He currently coordinates the development of the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT), a crop modeling system that is being used world-wide by many scientists and others interested in systems analysis and decision support. Applications include gene-based modeling and cultivar selection, climate variability and climate change, water resources management, biofuel, economic and environmental sustainability, and food and nutrition security.