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Jonathan Yuen receives award from the Government of Inner Mongolia, China

Published: 04 September 2019

Professor emeritus Jonathan Yuen has received an award from the Government of Inner Mongolia for "outstanding contributions" in epidemiological plant pathology research.

The award is called ”The Steed Award”. As part of the trip, Jonathan Yuen, along with his wife, researcher Annika Djurle, participate as “High level foreign experts" in a meeting with the Chinese Association for International Exchange of Personnel at the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Shandong region of China.

Jonathan Yuen has recently retired after a long and successful career as an internationally recognized expert in plant pathology, plant disease epidemiology, modelling, and statistics.

Jonathan Yuen has published over 170 research citations, of which over 150 are journal articles or chapters in scholarly books. He has served as the principal or assistant advisor to a number of doctoral students in the US, Sweden and a number of countries in Africa and Latin America. In the past ten years, he has received the equivalent of over 15 million SEK in grants. He has taught a number of specialized courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level in both English and Swedish.

– I am very honoured to receive this award and it is exciting to participate in meetings in China, says Jonathan.


Contact

jonathan.yuen@slu.se