Niels De Winter
Assistent-professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNiels De Winter is an assistant professor in marine geology and paleoclimatology with eight years of research experience at the interface of earth sciences, biology, and chemistry. He specializes in biomineralization and sclerochronology, using mollusk shells and advanced geochemical techniques (clumped isotopes, LA‑ICP‑MS, micro-XRF) to reconstruct high-resolution (seasonal to hourly) paleoclimate records from both recent and deep-time fossils. His work combines laboratory culturing experiments, microstructural analysis, and statistical modelling to translate shell chemistry into environmental and evolutionary insights, and he is committed to open data and improving analytical methods. As a university lecturer he teaches bio-geoscience and statistical data analysis, bringing hands-on methodological development into the classroom. An interesting detail: he couples modern growth experiments with fossil applications to develop proxies that can resolve human-scale climate variability millions of years in the past.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Earth, Life and Climate, cum laude, Master of Science (MSc), Earth, Life and Climate, cum laude at Universiteit UtrechtVrije Universiteit BrusselECORD Training course 2015
English, Dutch, German, French
Github Skills (9)
r-package6
to-do6
shell5
bash5
open-data5
open-science4
data-processing3
composition3
documentation2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nielsjdewinter/DA_model
Jan 2018 - Jan 2022
Diffusion-Advection model for leaching of trace elements into enamel
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
advectionelementstracediffusionadvection-diffusion
nielsjdewinter/ShellChron
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
ShellChron
Contributions:2 releases, 74 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 10 months
shellbash
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