Koen Hufkens
Founder BlueGreen Labs
Belgium
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Top SchoolKoen Hufkens is an earth system scientist and founder of BlueGreen Labs with 12 years of interdisciplinary research experience translating ecological processes into data-driven models. He combines a PhD-level background and senior research roles at institutions like ETH Zürich, University of Bern, and Harvard to fuse remote sensing, computer vision, and field measurements for modeling vegetation dynamics and drought/disturbance resistance. As a principal investigator and consultant he has bridged academic rigor with applied research, informing policy and practice in agricultural and climate contexts. His work is notable for adapting image-processing and engineering techniques to ecological model-data fusion, enabling retrospective reconstruction of ecosystem processes from proxy measurements. Based in Belgium, he focuses on actionable climate solutions through scalable data methods and founded BlueGreen Labs to bring that expertise into translational projects.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Phd, Phd at University of Antwerp
Dutch, English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (179)
ecology10
insar10
cds10
webcam-capture10
geodesy10
copernicus10
netcdf10
classification-algorithm10
post-processing10
latitude-longitude10
camera10
api10
data-access10
points10
r-package10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bluegreen-labs/skylight
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
A Simple Sky Illuminance Model
Contributions:3 releases, 62 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
ephemeridesilluminancerr-packagerstats
bluegreen-labs/foto
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
The FOTO (Fourier Transform Textural Ordination) R package.
Contributions:4 releases, 54 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years
r-packagefourierfourier-transformtransformclassification
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