Adrien Heymans
Postdoctoral Researcher at Université catholique de Louvain
Court-Saint-Etienne, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolAdrien Heymans is a plant biologist and postdoctoral researcher with eight years of experience integrating hydraulics, biomechanics, and image-driven modeling to understand plant water relations from root anatomy to pine needle mechanics. Trained in bioengineering (PhD at UCLouvain), he combines experimental work, finite element cell mechanics, CNN-based image analysis and ecosystem-scale hydrodynamic modeling to produce reproducible, open-source workflows. His projects span virtual phenotyping of root hydraulic traits, hydropatterning/xerobranching implementation in R-SWMS, and development of custom image-analysis software for confocal time series. Based in Belgium, he blends hands-on lab work with coding and teaching, and is particularly skilled at turning microscopy and cross-section images into quantitative hydraulic maps for drought-tolerance research.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Bioingeneering, Distinction, Master's degree, Bioingeneering, Distinction at Université catholique de Louvain
French, English, indonésien, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
r-package7
blender6
dplyr6
ggplot6
monte-carlo6
geometry6
python6
multidimensional-arrays6
user-guide6
3d6
resampling6
r6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HydraulicViper/HydraulicViper
Oct 2021 - Nov 2023
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 1 month
MARSHAL-ROOT/marshal-pipeline
Nov 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:1 release, 25 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 5 months
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