Data scientist/eScience engineer with coastal oceanography background. Co-founder of OpenEarth.eu. Manager Datalab at Van Oord Engineering & Estimating department.

Data scientist and eScience engineer: Advocate of open earth science data, open innovation initiatives, open source communities, business intelligence, data analytics, big data, noSQL, sensory data, industry 4.0, offshore operations research, Python, jupyter, pandas, javascript (learning), 4th paradigm, community building, wikis, sprintsessions, eScience, web 2.0 management of data, models and tools, crowd sourcing, standardization, co-creation, git, Azure, pyramid, Qlik Sense, PowerBI, rest APIs, MASA, opengeospatial, OGC web services, google earth, netCDF, hdf, opendap, zarr, docker, kubernetes, postgresql/postgis/geoserver, version and data governance, unit testing for scientists and engineers (e.g. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101013/full/467775a.html) and agile/scrum of course.

Background as coastal oceanographer: numerical modeling and data analysis of 3D baroclinic hydrodynamics (delft3d), ocean waves (swan), suspended sediment transport and consolidation in continental shelf seas, estuaries, tidal basins and lakes, satellite remote sensing data (ocean color, SST), EOF analysis, emodnet.