Biography of Professor Anton C. Beynen, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Anton C. Beynen was born in 1953. As from 1987 he has held 6 different professorships. Currently he is part-time professor of animal nutrition at the Rajamangala University of Technology-Isan, Sakon Nakhon, Thailand and at the King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His major responsibility now is leading the Research and Development division of Vobra Special Petfoods BV, Veghel, The Netherlands.

Anton Beynen has a M.Sc. of human nutrition (1977) and wrote a Ph.D. thesis (1981) on the regulation of fat metabolism. As a professor at Wageningen University, The Netherlands (1987-1992), at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (1991-1993) and at Utrecht University, The Netherlands (1993-2007) he has taught basic and applied animal nutrition to students of veterinary and biomedical sciences. He has developed training courses for veterinary students and veterinarians on dog and cat nutrition and dietetics. Anton Beynen carries out research, the main topic being the role of diet in health and disease in dogs and cats.

In 1993 Anton Beynen received, as the first non-US investigator, the Bio-Serv Award of experimental animal nutrition. In 2000 he was honoured as best teacher of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and in 2002 he was the most prolific supervisor of Ph.D. students of Utrecht University. Anton C. Beynen has served on the editorial board of 12 international journals, is supervisor of 51 completed Ph.D. theses and is (co)author of more than 700 publications of which 430 are indexed by PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) and has been recognized as highly cited author in the area of agricultural sciences (www.isihighlycited.com).