Petra Van Mulders
Business Development Consultant at Flanders Make
Orsmaal-Gussenhoven, Flemish Region, Belgium
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Top SchoolPetra Van Mulders is a multidisciplinary project and business development leader with 12 years of experience bridging deep scientific research and industry innovation. Trained as a particle physicist (PhD, VUB) and a former CERN researcher, she transitioned to applied R&D roles where she led teams that moved multiple prototypes into industrialisation and secured competitive subsidies. At Flanders Make and EUKA she shaped autonomous vehicle and drone ecosystems, helping SMEs translate advanced tech into market-ready solutions. Known for pragmatic problem solving and clear communication, she has repeatedly grown cross-functional teams and built novel analysis and machine-learning techniques that became standard practice in large collaborations. Currently active as Business Development Consultant, team leader and founder, she combines academic rigor with commercial focus and an uncommon ability to translate complex technical uncertainty into deliverable products. An often-overlooked strength is her track record of winning competitive funding and turning it into tangible organisational capacity.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dutch, English, French, German
Github Skills (8)
cockpit10
cms10
edtech10
backbonejs10
tagging5
validation5
jlink4
javascript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cms-btv-pog/Validation-Tools
Mar 2016 - Jun 2019
Tools for CMS b-tagging performance validation
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 2 months
cmsperformancetaggingvalidation
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