Stijn Calders
PHD Researcher (in Collaboration With KU Leuven)
Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolStijn Calders is a PhD researcher and seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, specializing in space weather services, citizen science and ESA projects. He leads the technical side of the Radio Meteor Zoo and the BRAMS radio meteor network, blending signal processing, software engineering and human-in-the-loop classification to turn large observational datasets into scientific insight. Former technical project manager for SPENVIS-NG, he has driven web-based, service-oriented architectures used by thousands of spacecraft engineers worldwide. Stijn pairs hands-on IT and project management skills with a deep amateur-astronomy passion—volunteering at a public observatory and exploring how gamification and machine learning can improve volunteer engagement and data quality.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
engineer, ICT-electronics, cum laude, engineer, ICT-electronics, cum laude at Karel de Grote' Hogeschool Antwerpen
Dutch, French, English
Github Skills (20)
astronomy9
core-library9
python9
astrophysics9
orbital-mechanics9
astrology9
astrodynamics9
science9
gtk8
astropy8
qt8
matplotlib7
data-visualization6
visualization6
data-science6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
calders/RadioMeteorZoo
Jul 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:63 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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