Rob Hooft
Coordinator Omics Data Working Group
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRob Hooft is a physical chemist-turned bioinformatics infrastructure leader with 15 years’ experience coordinating national life-science data efforts in the Netherlands. He has steered ELIXIR NL, DTL data stewardship programmes and Health-RI’s omics working group, translating FAIR data principles into operational collaborations between academia, industry and infrastructure projects. His background in crystallography and scientific software development gives him rare domain fluency—able to bridge deep technical engineering, R&D management and data stewardship. He has a track record of scaling teams and processes (from R&D at Bruker to national infrastructure) and turning research software into broadly used services. Based in Rotterdam, he combines hands-on technical credibility with programme-level delivery and a history of publishing and tooling that improved protein-structure quality assessment.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Chemistry, Master, Chemistry at Utrecht UniversityBonifatiuscollege
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian
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Github Skills (37)
data-management10
sequencing10
elixir9
collaborative-editing9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
science8
pipeline8
homey7
workflow-engine6
docker6
rda6
python6
git-repo6
dmp6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fairdatapoint/fairdatapoint.github.io
Oct 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 years 4 months
ds-wizard/ds-km
Nov 2014 - Jan 2020
ELIXIR Data Stewardship Knowledge Model
Contributions:131 commits, 3 PRs, 98 pushes in 5 years 2 months
elixir
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