Gijsbert Werner
Senior Research Fellow Project Leader at WRR - Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGijsbert Werner is a Senior Research Fellow and project leader at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) with nine years’ experience translating academic rigor into strategic policy advice on long-term challenges like health-care sustainability, climate justice, and demographic change. Trained as an evolutionary biologist (PhD cum laude) with postdoctoral fellowships at Oxford and a Royal Society Newton Fellowship, he combines quantitative instincts from evolutionary game theory and empirical methods with a knack for clear, policy-relevant synthesis. His background in political science and early involvement in civic organisations informs a pragmatic understanding of policy levers and public debate. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves comfortably between theoretical models and real-world policy design, bringing an evidence-driven yet socially attuned perspective to complex, long-horizon problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cum laude at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)MSc, Biology (Integrative Bio-Science), Distinction, MSc, Biology (Integrative Bio-Science), Distinction at University of OxfordBachelor of Science, Major in Biology, Minor in Philosophy, Cum Laude (top 5%), Bachelor of Science, Major in Biology, Minor in Philosophy, Cum Laude (top 5%) at Universiteit UtrechtUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (6)
decomposition9
meta-analysis9
r-package9
sensitivity8
sensitivity-analysis7
hypothesis-testing6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gijsbertwerner/CSR_Symbiont_Switch
Jul 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
gijsbertwerner/visualisisation_TRY
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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