Bob Douma

Bob Douma is an External employee at PE&RC (Plant Research International) within the Crop and Weed Ecology department at Wageningen University & Research. His work focuses on agricultural and ecological systems, particularly plant defense mechanisms, pest management strategies, and biodiversity conservation. He has contributed to over 60 research outputs and actively supervises PhD candidates in projects like intercropping disease suppression and forest pest invasion predictions.

Research interests include plant-pest interactions, forest biodiversity dynamics, and innovative technologies for agricultural monitoring (e.g., THz spectroscopy). He collaborates internationally on topics such as pest outbreak delimitation and agroecological pest control. Notable projects involve probabilistic modeling for pest invasion risk assessment and legacy effects of crop diversity.

• Education: Holds a dr.ir. (Dutch academic title) in agricultural sciences.
• Grants/Projects: Led projects on forest pest invasions and co-led PhD programs on pest management and disease suppression.
• Labs/Teams: Affiliated with Wageningen’s PE&RC group, contributing to datasets on plant defense and cover crop legacies.