Jens Klump
Group Leader Exploration Through Cover
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJens Klump is a geochemist and data-driven earth scientist with 11+ years at CSIRO, where he leads the "Exploration Through Cover" group applying analytics to mineral exploration under cover. His background blends marine geology (Dr. rer. nat.) and practical IT/database development, enabling him to bridge field sample science, large heterogeneous geoscience datasets, and computational methods. He has steered geoscience informatics teams and national initiatives, including long-term leadership roles at IGSN to standardize sample identification globally. Jens combines academic depth from Humboldt and Bremen with hands-on project delivery experience from research labs and industry, and is known for translating complex geoscientific problems into reproducible, data-focused workflows. An interesting non-obvious detail: he pairs traditional geochemical expertise with a history in web/IT project management and database development, giving him a rare mix of domain and systems skills.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Application and Database Development, Application and Database Development at cimdataB.Sc. (Honours), Geology, B.Sc. (Honours), Geology at University of Cape TownDr. rer. nat., Marine Geology, Dr. rer. nat., Marine Geology at Universität Bremen
German, English, Afrikaans, Russian
Github Skills (18)
metadata7
data-catalog5
owl4
ontologies3
ontology3
semantics2
semantic-web2
rdf2
neuroscience2
pid1
rda1
java1
architecture1
json-ld1
monarchinitiative1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IGSN/documentation
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
IGSN/metadata
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
IGSN description and registration metadata schema development
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
registrationdata-catalogmetadataigsnmetadata-schema
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