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Born |
1950 |
Dundee, Scotland |
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Education |
1974 |
B.Sc. (Biology and Chemistry
Majors) |
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1976 |
M.I.Biol. (Microbiology) |
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1980 |
A.I.W.Sc. (Wood Science) |
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1981 |
Ph. D. (Biodeterioration) |
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1989 |
Pr.Sci.Nat. (Professional
Natural Science) |
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Specialities
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Forest Products Biotechnology |
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Environmental and Industrial
Biotechnology |
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Professional Associations |
1976 |
Examined Member, Institute of
Biology, UK |
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1980 |
Elected Associate, Institute of
Wood Science, UK |
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1985 |
Member, Electron Microscopy
Society of Southern Africa |
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1987 |
Member, Technical Association of
the Pulp and Paper Industry of
Southern Africa |
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1988 |
Elected Member, International
Research Group on Wood
Preservation, Sweden |
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1989 |
Member, South African Society
for Microbiology |
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1989 |
Elected Member, South African
Council for
Professional Natural Scientists
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1991 |
Invited Editor (Botany and
Microbiology),
Proceedings of the Electron
Microscopy Society of Southern
Africa
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1991 |
Honorary Professor, South African Wood Preservers’
Association |
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1995 |
Editor Biotechnology, Paper
Southern Africa |
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1996 |
Listed in “Who’s Who in the World” for scientific
achievements |
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1996 |
Group Leader, International
Research Group on Wood
Preservation |
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Positions Held |
1992 – 2007 |
Entrepreneur and Company
Director – Biotrans |
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1989 – 1992 |
Professor and Head of Department
of Microbiology, University of
Durban-Westville, South Africa. |
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1986 – 1989 |
Senior Lecturer in Microbiology,
University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, Soiuth Africa |
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1984 - 1986 |
Lecturer in Microbiology,
University of Natal,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. |
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1982 – 1983 |
Lecturer in Industrial Microbiology, Dundee Institute of
Technology, UK. |
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1981 – 1983 |
Lecturer in Food Microbiology,
Duncan of Jordanstone College of
Art, UK. |
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1979 – 1981 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Dundee Institute of Technology. |
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Resumé |
Professor
Baecker is an internationally
recognized expert in the field
of Biotechnology and Industrial
Microbiology. He is recognised
nationally and internationally
as a specialist and Expert
Witness in Biodeterioration with
special reference to
Biodegradation and Forest
Products Biotechnology. He has
served as an elected Associate
of the Institute of Wood Science
(London), an invited Affiliate
of the South African Wood
Preservers' Association, an
elected Member of the
International Research Group on
Wood Preservation (a former OECD
Group of Experts), and as an
invited Group Leader thereof
He has further successfully
supervised the research of many
M.Sc. and Ph.D students, has
directed academic and industrial
research groups and is a former
National Examiner (SCOTEC, UK)
in Economic Microbiology and
External Examiner of M.Sc. and
Ph.D. theses for several
universities.
Professor Baecker the author or
co-author of approximately 150
scientific publications and has
presented original research
papers at many international
conferences over the past twenty
years.
In 1992, Baecker Research was
established as an independent
practice in Forest Products
Biotechnology, with in-house
laboratories, workshops,
plantation and riverine field
sites. Professor Baecker is the
inventor of over 45 Patents
examined and granted since 1994
in the USA, Chile, Canada,
Europe, Australia, New Zealand
and Africa. Professor Baecker
also acts as Consultant
Biotechnologist for many
national and multinational
concerns, both private and
public, and he has authored over
100 confidential reports in this
capacity.
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