Aaike De Wever Email & Phone Number

Aaike De Wever is currently employed as IT project coordinator at INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest). Until August 2018, he worked at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences as scientific data manager and coordinator for freshwater biodiversity data projects (incl. the development of the Freshwater Information Platform (BioFresh) data portal). Aaike has a background on aquatic microbial ecology in freshwater environments. For his PhD, he studied the microbial food web in Lake Tanganyika and has experience with challenging experimental fieldwork, molecular ecology and data management. After his PhD, he worked on microbial ecology of Antarctic lakes and teledetection of benthic micro-algae on intertidal mudflats. For the BioFresh project he coordinated the data workflow and the creation of the public data portal, which is continued through the Freshwater Information Platform and efforts to extend the Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (FADA) database through the AquaRES project. He is also actively involved in the data workpackages of the EU BON and the AMAZONFISH project, and coordinates a national project on freshwater data recovery in Belgium: SAFRED - Saving Freshwater Biodiversity Research Data.Important note: I get a fair amount of connection requests from people I haven't met or been in contact with before. To ensure my LinkedIn network actually represents a "working network" I won't accept request from persons I don't know unless you clearly mention the reasons to connect or a project I am involved in (e.g. FWBON, SAFRED,...).

Listed skills include Biodiversity, Science, Ecology, Gis, and 27 others.