May 2024 - current

SMALS, Brussels, Belgium

• functional analysis of the registration module of Vaccinnet 2.0, the FHIR-based web application for the Flemish Government
• delivery lead for the pilot extending eRevac of VSB (Flemish social security) to a new revalidation type (ambulant specialised mental health)
• translate stakeholder needs into user stories and acceptance criteria (JIRA, Confluence)
• coordinate functional testing and user acceptance testing with business users
• author functional documentation for developers and end users
• initiated EasyReUse, an internal AI search tool over SMALS's catalogue of reusable public-sector components (RAG + MCP on Elasticsearch); picked up by the innovation officer and now developed with a solution architect as a three-person team

Januari 2019 - February 2024

RBINS, Brussels, Belgium

Het Marine Forecasting Center (marinforecasts.be) manages, operates and validates a set of numerical models that describe the physical state of the NW-European shelf sea and in particular the Belgian part of the North Sea. My tasks:

• Design and implementation of the operational chain
• Improve of the hydrodynamic model set-up
• Operational planning and follow up
• Respond to user requests
• Follow up of the European (f.e. attending EuroGOOS working groups and conferences)

January 2010 - January 2019

RBINS, Brussels, Belgium

Environmental research related to pollution and biology:

• Impact assessment of a Same Risk Area between the Netherlands and Belgium
• Impact and fate of chemical pollution in the North Sea (o.a. plastics, medicines and pesticides)
• Pollution in Peruvian bays
• Shrimp distributions in lake Nokoué (Benin).

Development of modules in COHERENS, an in-house legacy software for hydrodynamic modelling.

Project and report writing

Marine expert CEBioS – "Capacities for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development" a programme financed by enabel Belgium and hosted at the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS). My tasks:

• Initiating of new cooperations
• Organizing stakeholder meetings
• Project development based on log-frame and theory of change principles
• Scientific support of the projects
• Developing of training material
• Project management

August 2009 - December 2009

ARCHE, Leuven, Belgium

Assisting companies with the correct implementation of the REACH (Regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals) legislation.

July 2008 - March 2009

VITO, Mol, Belgium

Invantarisations of CO2 emissions of several governmental organisations.

September 2025 – June 2026

VIVES Hogeschool Brugge, Belgium

• parttime postgraduate programme bridging AI and business: translating business questions into AI/data solutions and AI outputs back into business decisions
• Thesis: Use case development of EasyReUse, an AI search tool for SMALS's catalogue of reusable public-sector components (RAG + MCP on Elasticsearch)

May 2024 

Switchfully, Cegeka, Brussels (becentral.be)

Intensive one month training to get a head start in the world of functional analysis

2004 - 2009

KULeuven

Thesis: Development and application of drift prediction models (CFD and diffusion-advection based) in field spraying

2002 - 2003

UGent

Thesis: The influence of reed (Phragmytes australis) on the biogeochemistry of the sediment: a modelling approach. (in cooperation with NIOZ, Yerseke)

1998 - 2002

UGent

Thesis: The waterspider Argyroneta aquatica in the Bourgoyen: web structure and dispersal techniques