Frederiek Kerckhof
Co-Founder at KYTOS
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolFrederiek Kerckhof is a microbial ecologist and co-founder with 11 years of experience translating microbiome science into industrial applications, leading KYTOS to fingerprint and manage microbiomes across aquaculture, agriculture and fermentation. With a strong academic track record as a Ghent University postdoc and project manager, he combines multivariate statistics, advanced R and Python, flow cytometry and Illumina-based molecular workflows to turn complex community data into actionable insights. He has steered VLAIO- and IOF-backed valorization projects focused on real-time microbiome monitoring and fermentation management, bridging fundamental research and commercialization. Beyond the lab, Frederiek’s volunteer leadership running large scouting districts demonstrates operational rigor and people management at scale—skills he applies to building cross-disciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Bioscience engineering option Cellular and Genetic Biotechnology major Computational biology, Master, Bioscience engineering option Cellular and Genetic Biotechnology major Computational biology at Ghent UniversitySecondary education, Latin, Mathematics, Secondary education, Latin, Mathematics at Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege Assebroek
English, Dutch, French, Greek
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Github Skills (184)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CMET-UGent/CMETNGS
Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
Some convenience functions used in CMETs automated reporting pipeline for microbial amplicon sequencing
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 9 months
pipelinereportingampliconautomated-reportingconvenience-functions
CMET-UGent/Phenoflow_package
May 2018 - Jan 2023
R package offering functionality for the advanced analysis of microbial flow cytometry data
Contributions:4 commits, 32 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 years 9 months
r-packagecytometry-dataflow-cytometry-datarstatsmicrobial
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