Lígia Rütgers

Lígia Rütgers has extensive experience in various roles related to digital product development, data analytics, and data science in the agricultural industry. Lígia currently serves as the Head of Digital Product Development at KWS Group, overseeing the development of digital products and leading product and data teams. Prior to this, they worked at Syngenta as the Head of Applied Data Science LATAM, where they implemented a data-driven culture and expanded the scope of data science to various departments. Lígia also held the position of LATAM Data Science Manager at Syngenta, where they managed a team to support breeding teams with data analysis and developed a data strategy for breeding in LATAM. Additionally, Lígia has worked at Bayer Crop Science as a Technology Launch Manager and at Monsanto Company in roles such as Technology Launch Manager, Protected Culture Scientist, and Data Scientist. Lígia also has research experience from their time at the Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology.

Lígia Rütgers holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, completed from 2004 to 2008. Lígia then pursued a Master of Science degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, completed in 2010. From 2011 to 2015, they obtained a Dr. rer. nat. degree in Molecular Biotechnology and Systems Biology from RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. In 2018, they also earned a certification in Green belt from Escola EDTI.