Peter Herman
Self Employed
Kapellen, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Herman is a retired estuarine ecologist with over four decades of research and leadership experience exploring how physical and biological forces self-organize coastal landscapes. He has combined mathematical modeling, GIS/remote sensing and field experiments to quantify biogeochemical cycles, food webs and ecosystem engineering across estuaries, and has led research groups and advised policy-relevant projects at NIOZ, Deltares and TU Delft. As department head and professor he built interdisciplinary teams translating complex, scale-dependent dynamics into actionable knowledge for coastal management. Even in retirement he is known for marrying quantitative theory with hands-on sediment and benthos studies—a rare blend that produced insights into how tiny organisms drive large-scale morphodynamics. Based in Kapellen, Belgium, he brings a deep, systems-level perspective useful for conservation, management and any effort linking models to measurable ecosystem function.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Ecology, Ph.D., Ecology at Universiteit Gentsecondary school, Latijn-Wiskunde, secondary school, Latijn-Wiskunde at Sint-Jozef-Klein-Seminarie, Sint-Niklaas (B)
Github Skills (17)
mingw-w6410
mingw10
targets10
unidata8
linux8
windows8
atmosphere8
netcdf7
science6
biodiversity6
ecology6
biology4
gis3
python3
java3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pmjherman/r-ncdf4-build-opendap-windows
Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
pmjherman/Seamly2D
Feb 2023 - Nov 2023
Open source patternmaking software.
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 15 branches in 9 months
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