Christoph Högger: RésuméC.H. Högger was born in 1941 in Basel, and raised in Zürich, Switzerland. Throughout the school years he had an interest in biology, farming and gardening. School vacations were often spent on farms. After graduating in 1960 from the "Realgymnasium" in Zürich, he served in the Swiss Army. He attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology from 1961 to 1966. He specialized in plant production and plant protection. In 1966 he received an assistantship to study plant pathology and nematology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA. He received his M.S. degree in 1970. He entered the University of Georgia, Athens, USA in 1971 and studied weeds and cotton as hosts of plant-parasitic nematodes. He also investigated nematodes with the scanning electron microscope (SEM). He received his Ph.D. degree in 1975. In fall of 1974 he became a Research Fellow at McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Montreal, Canada. He studied overwintering of plant-parasitic nematodes, and worked on SEM. He taught two graduate level nematology courses. 1978 - 82 he worked as a plant pathologist in the National Potato Development Programme, sponsored by the Swiss Technical Cooperation in Kathmandu, Nepal. From 1982 to 2000 he was nematologist at the Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture, Reckenholz in Zürich and worked on distribution and control measures for plant-parasitic nematodes of field crops (mainly Globodera rostochiensis on potato, Ditylenchus dipsaci on sugar beet, cereals and red clover). He gave nematology short courses at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the Hochschule Wädenswil. He also worked on the ecology of earthworms and slugs. He is retired and has moved with his wife to Scottsville, Virginia, USA . He is in the process of fixing up house and garden ,   he works also for the James River Arts Council and the Scottsville Museum Languages German, English and French fluent, Italian speaking and reading, Spanish and Dutch reading, some Nepali speaking. Hobbies Photography, hiking, family history, gardening, carpentry, traveling, classical music Family married to Susann Högger-Spörri two grown up children: Elizabeth and Hanspeter Membership in Scientific Societies Society of Nematologists Last Update 1st Dec 2008 Back to my home page.