Ronald Plasterk

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ronald Plasterk
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Apr 12, 1957(1957-04-12)
Age	67
Birthplace	The Hague
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	South Holland
Horoscope	Aries

Ronald Plasterk Biography

Ronald Plasterk is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 12, 1957 in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands. Ronald Hans Anton Plasterk (Dutch pronunciation, [‘ro.nalt ‘hans] ; born 12/04/577) is a former Dutch politician and scientist from the Labour Party (PvdA).

Plasterk applied simultaneously to the University of Amsterdam in June 1975, majoring in Economics. He received a Bachelor of Economics degree on July 1977. Plasterk was a member of the Municipal Council of Leiden between 11 October 1982 and 1 September 1984.

Plasterk worked as a postdoctoral researcher from January 1985 until November 1987 at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California from January 1985 until October 1986 and at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England from October 1986 until November 1987.

In 1987 he returned to the Netherlands where he became group leader and member of the board of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. In 1989 he became director of the research school of oncology at the institute, where he remained until 2000. Between 1993 and 1997 he occupied the endowed chair in molecular microbiology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Between 1997 and 2000 he was professor of molecular genetics at the University of Amsterdam. In February 2000 he became director of the Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, also known as the Hubrecht Laboratory, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He combined this with a position as professor in developmental genetics at Utrecht University from May 2000. He retained these positions until February 2007.

Plasterk was an early 1980s member of the Leiden City Council for the Labour Party. He has been a columnist in several national newspapers and a TV commentator since 1995. He took on several active roles in national politics during the 2000s.

Ronald Plasterk Net Worth

Ronald Plasterk is one of the richest Politician from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ronald Plasterk 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Plasterk was educated at Sint Janscollege, The Hague’s gymnasium between 1969 and 1975. Plasterk then studied economics at the University of Amsterdam and biology at Leiden University. He also wrote for the student newspaper during this time. He earned his MSc in biology from Cum Laude University in 1981. In the same year, he also obtained his propaedeutic diploma as an economist. He was awarded a PhD in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences by Leiden University in 1984 for his thesis, “Inversions of the G segment and bacteriophage mu: Analysis of a genetic switch”. His research was focused on DNA transposon sequences. Plasterk was a doctoral researcher from 1981 to 1984 and also served as a member on the Leiden city council of the Labour Party.

Plasterk was educated at a Gymnasium in The Hague between May 1969 and June

1975. He applied to the Leiden University in July 1975, majoring in Biology. In August 1977, he received a Bachelor of Science degree. He then worked as a student researcher. He graduated with a Master of Science degree from Cum Laude in July 1981. After that, he worked as a researcher and earned his Doctor of Science in Natural Science in April 1984.

Between 1985 and 1986, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. There he studied the transposon sequences in DNA in the parasite Borrelia hermsii. Between 1986 and 1987 he was a post-doc at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where he worked with John Sulston. He studied Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode that is used as a model organism.

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Since 2001 Plasterk has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before entering politics he also was a member of the Health Council, which advises the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, a member of the board of the Wellcome Trust, member of the Committee on Biotechnology and Animals and of the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Facts & Trivia

Ronald Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Ronald Plasterk celebrates birthday on April 12 of every year.

On 22 February 2007 he was appointed minister of Education, Culture and Science in the fourth Balkenende cabinet for the Labour Party. Because of this appointment Plasterk has ended his scientific career, because he considers it is impossible to leave research for several years and then hope to reintegrate. Wouter Bos, leader of the Labour Party, sees Plasterk as a social and cultural libertarian, who balances out the social and cultural conservativism of the Labour Party’s coalition partners Christian Democratic Appeal and the Christian Union.