Rutger Vos
Afdelingsmanager at Naturalis Biodiversity Center Nederland
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRutger Vos is a bioinformatician and organizational leader with 18 years of experience building digital infrastructure for biodiversity research, now serving as Afdelingsmanager at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. He has architected institutional data platforms—introducing GitHub governance, Galaxy workflows and a Data Competence Center—that enable large-scale AI-driven species identification and cross-institutional data integration. Rutger combines hands-on computational evolutionary biology with strategic organizational design, mentoring 80+ students to completion and steering major European research infrastructures (BGE, ARISE, iBOL Europe). He is known for turning hackathon methodologies into sustained collaboration channels that break down data friction across institutions. Active in governance and diversity initiatives, he blends technical delivery with inclusive leadership to scale capabilities that address urgent biodiversity challenges. Based in The Hague, he brings a rare mix of phylogenetics research pedigree (PhD) and practical software engineering applied to global scientific impact.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Vrije School WageningenMSc, Evolution and Ecology, MSc, Evolution and Ecology at University of AmsterdamGymnasium, Gymnasium at Het Wageningsch LyceumPhD, Evolutionary Biology, PhD, Evolutionary Biology at Simon Fraser University
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (157)
ecology10
web-application10
synthesis10
genomes10
rest-api10
ncbi10
api10
science10
database10
r-package10
meta-analysis10
evolution10
rates10
biodiversity10
pathogen10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
naturalis/barcode_validator
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Standardized validation of barcodes
Contributions:75 PRs, 280 pushes, 47 branches in 1 year 4 months
naturalis/img-classify-all
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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