As the bioinformatician of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, I am part of the Research Priority Area Systems Biology of the University of Amsterdam. We are interested in unraveling the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of complex biological systems. By integrating multi-omics and meta-omics data derived from next- and third-generation sequencing technologies, we aim to elucidate the genomic basis of species interactions and the environmental drivers of community dynamics.
Working on a project basis, I guide and support scientists, postdocs and PhD-students from IBED with bioinformatic analyses of their -omics data. Depending on project needs, my contribtion can consist of advise on experimental design and analyses, development and benchmarking of bioinformatics pipelines, analyses and integration of sequencing data, and / or facilitating open science through the publication of data and tools. If your project needs support in e.g. comparative -omics, population -omics or meta -omics? - Please don't hesitate to contact me!
To ensure that cutting-edge bioinformatic approaches are also embedded in the IBED curriculum, I develop teaching material for practicals and assignments. In addition, I offer on-demand workshops in bioinformatic methods for students and scientists, such as the analyses of amplicon sequencing data using QIIME2. As a board member of the Amsterdam Science Park Study Group, I contribute to Data and Software Carpentry courses. If you want to propose a topic for a workshop, please don't hesitate to contact me!
To meet the high computational needs of bioinformatics research, IBED has access to several High Performance Computer clusters, including Genseq and Lisa. I maintain the IBED accounts, and help with installing programs and running analyses on the GenSeq cluster. In addition, I provide SystemAdmin support for Linux machines at IBED. To ensure that IBED is ready for increasing demands for FAIR research data storage, I am involved in the iRODS pilot of SURF.
Since 2019
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Bioinformatician Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
2016 - 2019
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Postdoctoral researcher in comparative insect genomics Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics group at the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity University of Münster, Germany. |
2015 - 2016
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Postdoctoral researcher & lecturer in ant genomics Evolutionary Biology Group at the Institute for Zoology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. |
2011 - 2015 |
PhD in Evolutionary Biology - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Awarded Summa Cum Laude |
2007 - 2011 |
Master of Science in Ecology and Evolution - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Top programme Evolutionary Ecology |