Professional experience
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2008-2012: PhD Student at Armagh Observatory (Queens University Belfast)
Project: "Star formation in the Northern Galactic Plane using the IPHAS survey"
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2007-2008: Young Graduate Trainee at European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC)
Project: "Planetary Science Archive & the Virtual Meteor Observatory"
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2006-2007: Scientific Assistant at Royal Meteorological Institute (Brussels)
Project: "Quality control of the climatological database"
Education
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2002-2006: MSc Computer Science, University of Antwerp
Magna cum lauda
Master thesis: "Association rule mining in a meteorological database"
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1996-2002: Sciences & Math - High School Degree
Skills
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Generic problem solving, object-oriented software engineering and data analysis.
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Languages: Dutch (native), English (good), French (good), German (basic).
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Programming: Python, Java, C/C++, R, PHP, Perl, CSH, HTML, Javascript, XML, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Drupal, Android.
Awards and grants
Meetings organized
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International Meteor Conference, 2012 September 20-23, La Palma (ES) - LOC
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International Meteor Conference, 2010 September 16-19, Armagh (UK) - SOC
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ISSI Team Meeting "Virtual Observatory for Meteoroids", 2008 November 24-28, Bern (CH) - SOC
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European Mars Science and Exploration Conference, 2007 November 12-16, ESA/ESTEC (NL) - LOC
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International Meteor Conference, 2005 September 15-18, Oostmalle (BE) - SOC
Meetings attended
- Optical/IR Galactic Plane Surveys Meeting, 2011 July 18-22, Hertfordshire (UK)
- dot Astronomy 3, 2011 April 3-6, Oxford (UK)
- The Origin of Stellar Masses (Constellation network), 2010 October 18-22, Tenerife (ES)
- Herschel First Results Symposium , 2010 May 4-7, ESA/ESTEC (NL)
- National Astronomy Meeting, 2009 April 20-23, Hertfordshire (UK)
- From Disks to Planets: Learning from Starlight, 2009 March 16-20, Leiden (NL)