Rob Van Loon
Scientific Researcher at RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRob Van Loon is a scientific researcher with a PhD in experimental physics and over 12 years of experience applying physics, GIS and software development to environmental health problems such as noise, vibrations and air quality. Based at RIVM in the Netherlands, he blends hands-on geospatial engineering (postgis, spatial models, web mapping) with specialized noise measurement, modeling and dataset creation, including a national 3D environmental noise model developed with Kadaster and TU Delft. His background ranges from nanofabrication and optical experiments to leading open-source GEO-IT projects and building web APIs, reflecting a rare combination of experimental rigor and pragmatic software delivery. He frequently bridges domain science and production systems—creating data pipelines, remote measurement setups and interactive mapping tools—to turn complex spatial data into actionable public-health insights. Notably, his transition from designing nanoscale plasmonic devices to shaping nationwide environmental noise infrastructure illustrates a persistent curiosity for how things work across scales.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
ir, ir at University of TwenteVWO, VWO at Mollerlyceum
Dutch, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
checker10
wps9
osgeo9
python9
qos9
geoserver9
docker9
wfs9
piano9
gis9
beaglebone-black8
geo8
wcs8
data-conversion8
ogc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
borrob/codeklavier-python
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
CodeKlavier (Python)
Contributions:80 pushes, 37 branches, 2 comments in 1 year 4 months
codeklavier-pythonpythonpython3
borrob/WebTimer
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
An egg timer over the internet
Contributions:45 pushes, 20 branches, 6 tags in 1 year 1 month
egg-timertimeregginternet
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