Ron Hoogenboom
Member Scientific Committee at European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRon Hoogenboom is a researcher and programme leader specializing in food contaminants, with a PhD in Toxicology and over three decades of domain expertise translated into nine years of recorded professional experience in high-impact roles. He has shaped risk assessment at national and international levels, including long service on EFSA’s CONTAM Panel and current membership of EFSA’s Scientific Committee. At Wageningen Food Safety Research he leads work on novel food safety issues, spanning persistent organic pollutants and natural toxins and including transfer studies in food-producing animals. Besides regulatory science, he teaches at Wageningen and Utrecht universities, bridging research and education. A retired mathematician by inclination, he also builds static informational websites and has a quirky sideline teaching a customer-named “Dragon” and playing the harpsichord, reflecting a mix of analytical rigor and human-scale creative interests. Based in Wageningen, he brings deep technical judgment and practical lab-to-policy experience to complex food safety challenges.
9 years of coding experience
Ingenieur, Human Nutrition, Ingenieur, Human Nutrition at Wageningen UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Toxicology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Toxicology at RIKILT
English, German
Github Skills (53)
activestate9
komodo-edit9
debugger-visualizer9
python9
komodo-ide9
xul9
xulrunner9
weechat8
mozilla8
tcl8
saltstack8
perl8
voiceover8
komodo8
nodejs7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dictation-toolbox/natlink
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
Natlink provides the interface between Dragon and python
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 459 commits in 3 years 2 months
pythonpython3dragonsaltstack
quintijn/natlink
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:64 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
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