Henning Winker
Fishery Officer- Assessment And Management at FAO
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolHenning Winker is a fisheries scientist and quantitative modeller with a PhD in Ichthyology and over a decade of international experience in stock assessment, CPUE standardization and Bayesian state-space methods. He has driven tool development for data-poor and data-moderate fisheries, notably conceiving and developing JABBA and JARA, which have been adopted for global shark and seabird assessments. His background spans academia, national agencies and international institutions (FAO, EC), where he has translated complex diagnostics into practical management advice and software. Proficient in R, ADMB, TMB and JAGS, he blends deep ecological insight with advanced statistical and programming skills to improve robustness of fisheries advice. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and 70 technical reports and routinely contributes to international scientific working groups. Based in Rome, he combines tool-building for real-world assessment needs with ongoing research unifying diagnostics across modelling platforms.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Applied Fish Biology, MSc, Applied Fish Biology at University of PlymouthPhD, Ichthyology and Fisheries Sciences, PhD, Ichthyology and Fisheries Sciences at Rhodes University
Github Skills (10)
stock8
diagnostics7
cookbook7
synthesis6
machine-learning5
python2
finance1
core-package1
r-package1
r1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
flr/FLRef
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 3 months
Henning-Winker/JARA
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
JARA: Just Another Redlist Assessment
Contributions:185 commits, 103 pushes, 3 comments in 4 years 8 months
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