Ferry Hagen

Ferry Hagen is a group leader at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (WI-KNAW). After receiving his PhD from the Utrecht University with a thesis entitled ‘Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans – Cosmopolitans on the move’, Hagen worked as (medical) molecular microbiologist at CWZ Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital in Nijmegen. In 2017, he returned to the Westerdijk Institute where he is heading the research group Medical Mycology. Since 2022 he is professor ‘Fungal Functional Diversity’ at the University of Amsterdam.