Chantal Huijbers
Product Owner DNA-Databank
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolChantal Huijbers is a Product Owner and science-infrastructure specialist with a decade of experience translating ecological and forensic research needs into robust digital services. Currently leading the DNA-Databank product at the Netherlands Forensic Institute, she previously drove infrastructure and automated species recognition projects for Naturalis’ ARISE program and Catalogue of Life. Her background—PhD in Marine Ecology and hands-on research roles—gives her unusual fluency in both domain science and technical product delivery. She excels at aligning distributed teams, building end-user training, and turning complex taxonomy and biodiversity workflows into scalable IT systems. Colleagues benefit from her mix of academic rigor and practical program management, often spotting operational bottlenecks before they surface. Based in Rotterdam, she brings a track record of enabling data-driven science through thoughtful, user-centered infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Marine Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Marine Ecology at Radboud UniversityBSc & MSc Biology, BSc & MSc Biology at Wageningen UniversityVWO, VWO at Pre-university education at Macropediuscollege Gemert
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ecoed/tutorials
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ecoed/lanyon
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
A content-first, sliding sidebar theme for Jekyll.
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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