Benjamin Butler
Co-founder & Chief Science Officer at Soil Benchmark
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolBenjamin Butler is a co-founder and Chief Science Officer driving Soil Benchmark’s mission to turn under-used farm data into actionable insight that restores soil health. With eight years of experience bridging academic research and applied environmental science—from a PhD in Ocean Science to data-driven work at The James Hutton Institute—he models large-scale soil and environmental datasets to inform practical farming decisions. Based in Dublin, he combines rigorous quantitative skills in environmental chemistry and geoscience with entrepreneurial grit to build tools that align farmer incentives with long-term sustainability. Colleagues know him for translating complex spatial datasets into clear, farm-level recommendations that change management practice rather than just produce reports.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ocean Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ocean Science at Bangor University
English
Github Skills (13)
spectrum10
leaflet9
pattern9
diffraction9
raytracing9
ray8
powder8
maps7
javascript7
typescript5
bookdown2
shiny-apps1
shiny1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benmbutler/powdR
Sep 2017 - Nov 2021
Full Pattern Summation of X-Ray Powder Diffraction Data
Contributions:353 commits, 1 PR, 302 pushes in 4 years 2 months
summationraypowderspectrumdiffraction
benmbutler/DigitalMineralogyWebsite
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Digita Mineralogy Website
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year
digitamineralogy
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