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Ulrich Schirmer, Ph.D., is a very experienced and highly regarded consultant in the agricultural chemistry industry, in which he has more than 30 years of experience. From 1990-2002 Dr. Schirmer was Senior Vice President for BASF where he was responsible for the discovery and development of crop-protection chemicals. Prior to that Dr. Schirmer worked in various research and marketing positions at BASF. Dr. Schirmer was part of the team that started the plant biotechnology group within BASF in 1997 and was part of the integration team for the American Cyanamid acquisition by BASF. Dr. Schirmer was a board member for Wirtschaftsverbund Pflanzengenomforschung GABI e.V. Dr. Schirmer played a major role in the development of agricultural chemicals based on the naturally-occurring strobilurin antifungal compounds. The resulting agrochemicals represent more than 20% of the value of the global fungicide market today. Dr. Schirmer received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart (1973) and did post doctoral work at the University of Paris-Orsay. | 