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Brugge, Vlaanderen, België

- Fair coffee and cacao roasting- IT consultancy and hosting

Meise, Vlaanderen, België

Working on European projects in support of policy and biodiversity:- GUARDEN for safeguarding biodiversity and critical ecosystem services- B-Cubed, handling the cloud infrastructure needs and organizing technical operations boardStarting forensic services for EUDR legislation with the Crop Source Investigations MeiseBG projectContributing to our efforts on gender equality and research excellence through participation in the workgroups on gender and research department design

Bruges, Flemish Region, Belgium

As an unincorporated association, I organize activities around coffee:- a web platform to share coffee roasting equipment and insights - https://www.212coffees.be- a YouTube channel, discussing everything related to coffee, follow at https://shorturl.at/rFI04- a Kickstarter to build an open coffee preference database - https://shorturl.at/fXY17

Diepenbeek, Flemish Region, Belgium

At Biostrand, I was a full-time member of the data-science team. Because of my extensive academic and practical experience in bio-engineering and bio-informatics, my main responsibility and focus was on customer data ingestion, grouping and analysis. I also prepared data to be processed by the BioStrand Genetic Research Information Platform. My unique combination of biology and computer science knowledge allowed me to expand the current platform capability to automatically reveal and disclose unknown insights on (proprietary) research data, which helped researchers finding novel results and successes.

Bruges, Flemish Region, Belgium

Studio Renaissance, or in full "Educatief Cultureel Centrum Studio Renaissance" was a non-profit organization that organized art workshops. I was responsible for all administration and acting as treasurer. I also created the backend for the website (https://kunststudio.rybina.be/) with the frontend and graphic designs developed by Anastasiya Rybina, the artist who organized the art workshops.

Gent Area, Belgium

Bioinformatics and data mining in paediatric cancer research.

Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Applying text mining and machine learning to the medical literature, to advance cancer research.Using graph methods on the text-derived knowledge graphs we generate, to derive novel insights. Professor assistant in the course "AI in bioinformatics."

Gent Area, Belgium

Working on massively parallel sequencing projects. Setting up international collaborations in the field of forensics.

Faculty Of Farmaceutics, Ghent

Capillary electrophoresis is still the golden standard for DNA profiling in forensics. During this PhD, I developed software tools to help the forensic community transition to the use of sequencing for DNA profiling. The dissertation was titled: Porting forensic DNA analysis to deep sequencing.

Greater San Diego Area

Developing apps for the BaseSpace platform. Providing constructive feedback for the core BaseSpace developers. Internship gave me experience with Docker, D3, scrum, test driven development.

Bruges, Flemish Region, Belgium

I created the first web presence for this non-profit organization of Flemish wine tasters, and maintained and updated it during a five year period.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation titled "Porting forensic DNA analysis to deep sequencing"

Master'S Degree, Philosophy, Cum Laude

Dissertation titled "Evolutionary Epistemology and the Problem of Ignorance"

Bachelor'S Degree, Philosophy, Distinction

Activities and Societies: KMF

Master'S Degree, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering