Name
Frank Willem Oudshoorn
Born
16th September 1957, The Netherlands.
Education
2009. PhD, Innovative technology, 1985 Agricultural Engineer (ir); Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
 
 
Professional Employment
 
 
 
 
 
 
SEGES. 2015-present. Senior advisor organic arable farming.
Aarhus University. 2011-2014, assistant professor, operations management
Aarhus University. 2008-2011, academic employee, research and education
Aarhus University. 2007-2008, acting head of research unit “Automation and System engineering, Institute of Biosystems Engineering.
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences. 2004-2008. Academic employee, research in technology for organic dairy, sensor technology, sustainability assessment.
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Chief Manager Organic experimental Station Rugballegaard, Denmark 1999-2003.
Extension services Denmark, Advisor, specialised in roughage production and organic farming. 1988-1999
 
 
Key Qualifi-cations
System analysis, sustainability assessment, life cycle assessment, technology and resource assessment. System Research  in organic pig farming, organic cattle farming, organic arable farming. Operations management for controlled grazing technology.
Broad knowledge on organic farming practice and principles throughout Europe
Advisory and extension, for industry and government.
Management and coordination expertise; working in groups as well as projects.
Bilingual in Danish and Dutch, in addition fluently English in speech and writing.
 
 
Present projects
OPTIMEK; Optimal growth space in maize, sugar beets and Pak Choi
ROWCROP;  Row cropping in organic arable farming for increased productivity and sustainability (RowCrop)
Controlled Grazing, a national project for improved grazing application, including sensor development , data modeling and decision support, GUDP (2011-2013)
AUTOGRASSMILK, EU project to develop and evaluate grazing practices when using automatic milking systems (2013-2016)
Controlled traffic Farming in organic plant production, GUDP (2013-2017)
Wide Span Gantry development (2011-2013)
Smart Integrated Livestock Farming, ICT-Agri EU project (2013-2016)
Management for high productive multiannual pasture for dairy cattle (2013)
 
 
 
Education
 
 
 
 
Relevant Publications
 
Coordinator and teacher of bachelor and master university courses in Live Cycle Assessment and sustainable engineering.
PhD supervisor for projects: Assessing Sustainability of Agricultural Supply Chains and Wide Span technology for efficient and environmental friendly vegetable production
 
Oudshoorn, F.W., Gemtos, F. Sørensen C.G. 2008.  Direct and indirect energy audit in arable crop production and mitigation possibilities. D &.4 Future Farm, 7th Framework program. http://www.futurefarm.eu/system/files/FFD6.4_Energy_Audit_final.pdf
Grøn Sørensen, Claus; Halberg, N.; Oudshoorn, F.W.; Petersen, Bjørn Molt; Dalgaard, Randi. 2014
Biosystems Engineering, Vol. 120, 2014, s. 2 -14. Energy inputs and GHG emissions of tillage systems.
Oudshoorn, F.W., Sørensen, C.Å.G., De Boer, I.J.M., 2011. Economic and environmental evaluation of three goal-vision based scenarios for organic dairy farming in Denmark. Agricultural Systems 104 (2011), pp. 315-325.