Olaf Van Kooten

Nijmegen Area, Netherlands Netherlands

Prof. at Wageningen University

Education

I focus mainly on the transition from pre- to postharvest in product physiology and product quality. This is aimed at allowing information acquired during the production phase to become meaningful and available during the postharvest handling phase. I specialise in using non-destructive measurement techniques for determining internal physiological states combined with dynamic models to interpret the measurements and to predict future quality related behaviour under specified environmental conditions. The research is aimed at developing techniques and models to enable the combination of quality management with supply chain management. On the production side I am working on market induced p...