Partners

Laura has a background in Evolutionary and Behavioural Biology. Presently, she is working as a biologist within the biodiversity informatics team at Meise Botanic Garden. In this role, she contributes to various projects aimed at advancing our knowledge of biodiversity.

Lissa has an MSc in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, with experience as an ecological researcher. She has a strong interest in data management and -analysis, and dedicated herself to further learning in the field of statistics and data science. These pursuits seamlessly align with her current role as a Biodiversity Data Scientist for MeiseBG.

Quentin leads MeiseBG's biodiversity informatics team and he is B-Cubed's coordinator. He has played a leading role in several national and international projects related to the publication, dissemination, and analysis of biodiversity data. Quentin has expertise in the digitisation of collections, biodiversity standards, invasive alien species and the analysis of data collected by citizen science.

Louise is a biodiversity informatics researcher at Meise Botanic Garden with an MSc and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences. She is involved in the project management of B-Cubed and tasks related to training and phylogenetic diversity.

Maarten is a Biodiversity Data Scientist and a Project Coordinator for the DiSSCo Flanders project. He has an MSc in Physics, with experience in systems engineering in aerospace and medical engineering. In 2019, Maarten joined the Biodiversity Informatics team at Meise Botanic Garden, with a strong focus on Linked Open Data and data standards development.

Tim is a conservation ecologist at INBO where he is coordinating invasive species activities from the Wildlife Management and Invasive Species team. His research is focused on surveillance using citizen science, monitoring and open data, impact and risk assessment, risk management, ecosystem restoration and human dimensions of biological invasions. At the interface of science, policy and practice, much of his work is focused on the EU Regulation on Invasive Alien Species. He works a lot with stakeholders, in various LIFE (RIPARIAS, MICA) and other EU-funded projects. Open data, data-driven workflows and information systems are important aspects of his work.

Peter is open data coordinator and team lead for INBO's Open science lab for biodiversity. With over 15 years of experience in biodiversity informatics, his work involves the coordination and development of biodiversity research software, infrastructure and data standards. He (co)maintains several R packages and has standardised and published numerous (GBIF-mediated) datasets covering animal tracking, camera traps, citizen science, invasive alien species and radar aeroecology. Peter coleads the development of the camera trap data exchange format "Camtrap DP" and is a member of the Darwin Core maintenance group.

Ward is a statistical expert at the Research Institute for Nature and Forest and a member of the team 'Biometry, Methodology and Quality Assurance'. He is focused on monitoring schemes, data analysis and reproducible research. He is furthermore involved in supporting scientists with the statistical analysis of their research data.

Toon is an engineer in land- and water management at INBO and a member of a support team for statistical analysis and methodology which stimulates the use of open data and reproducible research practice. He has experience in the development of nature indicators and nature outlooks. Current research projects involve species distribution models, population modelling, analysis of mark-recapture and telemetry data and eco-hydrological monitoring and modelling.