Congratulations to Kees Moeliker, “the duck guy”, who on December 1 will become director of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, where he is currently curator. Congratulations also to Jelle Reumer, the museum’s current director, who has become a full professor at Utrecht University.
Kees was awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for biology, for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. Kees is also Improbable Research’s European Bureau Chief. Here, in case you have not seen it, is Kees’s TED Talk about the duck:
BONUS: An interview in de Volkskrant.