Björn Harink
Principal Scientist at Solucio LLC
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolBjörn Harink is a Principal Scientist and Systems Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing high-end instrumentation for space exploration and environmental monitoring, spanning microfluidics, embedded systems, and autonomous sensing. Based in Redwood City, he leads R&D at Leiden Measurement Technology where he drives prototype development for life-detection missions and commercial environmental sensors while owning systems integration, PCB design, and embedded firmware work. He also runs a consultancy and small firm delivering electronics, microfluidic design, and prototype project management, blending academic rigor from a PhD in biomedical sciences with product-focused execution. His background includes pioneering microfluidic platforms for proteome-scale assays at Stanford/UCSF and practical cleanroom and nanofabrication experience from his PhD work. Known for translating complex lab concepts into flight-capable and OEM-ready hardware, he pairs deep experimental science with pragmatic engineering leadership. Outside product work he has a track record of community building—co-founding Bay Area Postdocs and reanimating UCSF’s postdoc association—reflecting strong communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biological and Biomedical Sciences at University of TwenteThe Space Stream at CDL-Toronto, The Space Stream at CDL-Toronto at Creative Destruction Lab
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
gaussian-mixture-models10
decoding9
opcodes9
encoding8
pandas6
python6
matplotlib6
microscopy1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
FordyceLab/MRBLEs
May 2016 - Dec 2019
Decoding and analysis software for MRBLEs (Microspheres with Ratiometric Barcode Lanthanide Encoding).
Contributions:262 commits, 1 PR, 101 pushes in 3 years 7 months
suspension-arraysdecodinggaussian-mixture-modelsoptical-encodinganalysis
bjornharink/MRBLEs
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Decoding and analysis software for MRBLEs (Microspheres with Ratiometric Barcode Lanthanide Encoding).
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
decodinganalysisencodingsoftware-analysisopcodes
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