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Dr. Dave Thomas
Bsc Applied Biology and PhD Entomology
Director(The company name is only visible to registered members)
- 8260 AB Kampen
- Netherlands
Personal information
- Interests
- writing poetry, ice hockey, communication, social justice
- Groups
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- Employment status
- Entrepreneur
Educational background
- Imperial College London and Wageningen University Bsc Applied Biology and PhD Entomology
- Languages
- English (First language), Dutch (Fluent)
About me
Native Speaker Translations
PO Box 82, 8260 AB Kampen, The Netherlands
T: +31 321 338153
E : info@nstranslations.nl W:
http://www.nstranslations.nlNationality British and Dutch Date of Birth 22 June 1967
Language skills
English is my mother tongue and I gained a grade A in English at ‘A’ level. I am fluent in Dutch, which I learnt whilst studying for my PhD in Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Professional Memberships
Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI)
Society of English Native Speakers and Editors (SENSE)
Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV)
Translation and editing experience
Medical
Abstracts for Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde [Dutch Journal of Medicine]
Practice guidelines for the Dutch College of General Practitioners
Various texts for the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
Various texts for the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW)
Clinical research correspondence
Medical correspondence
Pharmaceutical information for human and veterinary products (SPC texts and package inserts)
Scientific
Press releases and reports for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Various reports for the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO)
Research reports for the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Various reports and abstracts for the Health Council of the Netherlands (Gezondheidsraad)
Various reports and abstracts for the Rathenau Institute (think-tank on science policy)
Various reports for Netherlands Commission on Genetic Modification (COGEM)
Various reports for Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)
Research publications and exhibition texts for Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, the Netherlands
Various reports for Technology Foundation STW
Agricultural
Various texts for ID Lelystad
A wide variety of texts for a pig breeding company
Various promotional texts for the horticultural industry
Education
January 2002 to April 2002
ITV Hogeschool, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Postgraduate Diploma in Editing
September 1993 to July 1994
Anglia Polytechnic University, Brentwood, England
Postgraduate Certificate in Education
October 1989 to September 1992
Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Doctorate in Agricultural Entomology
October 1985 to June 1989
Imperial College, University of London, England
Bachelor of Science in Applied Biology
Employment history
Since January 2001
Owner of Native Speaker Translations, a company that specialises in medical and scientific texts.
July 1999 to December 2000
Translator at Wilkens c.s. in Leiderdorp, the Netherlands, where I translated mostly medical and scientific texts, although my day-to-day duties included some general translation and editing tasks.
September 1997 to June 1999
Teacher of General Science and Curriculum Coordinator at Canterbury High School, Canterbury, England.
September 1994 to August 1997
Teacher of General Science and Coordinator of Extracurricular Activities at Hartsdown Technology College, Margate, England.
October 1992 to August 1993
Various unskilled jobs via Dutch temping agencies, which financed several trips to Eastern Europe.
October 1985 to July 1989
Practical placements during my Applied Biology degree in forestry, biotechnology and horticulture (total 16 months).
Publications
Thomas DC (1993). Host plant adaptation in the glasshouse whitefly. Ph.D. Thesis, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, the Netherlands. 129pp.
Thomas DC (1992). Host plant adaptation in the glasshouse whitefly IV, an appropriate methodology for assessing host plant adaptation. Proc. Exper. & Appl. Entomol., N.E.V., Amsterdam 3, 201-207.
Thomas DC (1992). Whitefly preference-performance relationships. In: S.B.J. Menken, J.H. Visser & P. Harrewijn (eds). Proc. 8th Int. Symp. Insect-Plant Relationships, Dordrecht: Kluwer Acad. Publ.; pp. 167-168.
Thomas DC, Huisman PWT and Lenteren JC van (1991). A study of host plant adaptation in the glasshouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood ). Proc. Exper. & Appl. Entomol., N.E.V., Amsterdam 2, 121-122.
Thomas DC and Lenteren JC van (1990). The population genetics of host plant adaptation of Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) on four different horticultural crops. SROP/WPRS Bull. XIII, 215-217.
Thomas DC (1990). Roots of dogma in biology. Nature 348, 577.
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