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Öquist, Frits Gunnar was born on July 7, 1941 in Ojebyn, Sweden.
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Frits Gunnar Öquist, Swedish plant physiologist. Member of American Society Plant Physiologists, Scandinavian Society Plant Physiology, Australian Society Plant Physiology, Academia Europea, Australian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Canada, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (secretary general 2003-2010).
Education
Graduate, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Sweden, 1972.
Career
Research assistant plant physiology Umeå University, 1972-1975, docent plant physiology, 1975-1981, chairman department plant physiology, 1977—1993, professor plant physiology, since 1981, vice dean science, 1984—1990, board directors, 1991—1994. Visiting scientist department plant biology, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Stanford, California, 1980, Commonwealth Science & Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia, 1990—1991, department plant science, University We. Ontario, Canada, 1991, 2000.
Member Swedish Natural Science Research Council, 1986—1992, Swedish Research Council Engineering Sciences, 1991—1993, European Research Advisory Board, since 2001. Member research advisory council (Forskningsberedningen) Government of Sweden, 1992—1994. Board directors Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, 1996—1999, Foundation Strategic Research, 1997—1999, Bergen University, Norway, since 2003.
Board directors, member executive council European Science Foundation, 1996—2000. Chairman steering board Wallenberg Konsortium North for Functional Genomics, since 2001. Board directors, deputy chairman Nobel Foundation, since 2003.
Membership
Member of American Society Plant Physiologists, Scandinavian Society Plant Physiology, Australian Society Plant Physiology, Academia Europea, Australian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Canada, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (secretary general 2003-2010).
