Bert Van Der Veen
Akademischer Rat Auf Zeit
Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolBert Van Der Veen is a statistical ecologist and Akademischer Rat auf Zeit with a decade of experience developing mixed-effects and latent variable models to tackle multivariate questions in community ecology. Trained as a forest and nature manager and holding a PhD in Mathematical Sciences (Statistics) from NTNU, he bridges applied ecological knowledge with rigorous statistical method development driven by the biodiversity crisis. His work spans postdoctoral roles in Norway and applied GIS/web tools for land management, reflecting both field-rooted intuition and strong technical fluency. Known for diving deep into unfamiliar technical challenges, he specializes in generalized mixed-effects models for complex ecological datasets and is preparing a habilitation to translate his research into broader scientific impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Forest and Nature Management, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Forest and Nature Management at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied SciencesMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Applied ecology, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Applied ecology at University of Inland NorwayNiveau 4/ Secondary Vocational Education Garden Park and Landscape, Niveau 4/ Secondary Vocational Education Garden Park and Landscape at Wellant college Rijswijk, Huis te LandeNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
21reputation
151reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (52)
missing-data10
hierarchical10
interpretable-machine-learning10
linear-models10
meta-analysis10
glmmtmb10
tmb9
machine-learning9
statistical-models8
computation8
r7
anova7
pls7
nlopt7
eclipse6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BertvanderVeen/gllvm
Aug 2019 - Jun 2026
Generalized Linear Latent Variable Models
Contributions:2 PRs, 1190 pushes, 73 branches in 6 years 11 months
regressionplsnaive-bayeslinear-modelsmachine-learning
BertvanderVeen/BertvanderVeen.github.io
Feb 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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