Thierry Onkelinx
Senior Statistician
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolThierry Onkelinx is a senior statistician based in Brussels with 12 years of applied experience combining advanced R programming, spatial statistics and mixed models to inform forest and ecological management. At the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) he has progressed from statistician to senior statistician, translating complex GIS and modelling work into practical guidance for conservation and forestry. Trained as a bioscience engineer and in statistical data analysis at Ghent University, he blends domain expertise in forest management with rigorous quantitative methods and a track record of publications. He also has hands-on experience with historical map vectorization and advising private forest owners, showing a practical bent for turning data into actionable landscape-scale decisions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
high school, Mathematics, high school, Mathematics at Sint-Jorisinstituut, BrusselMaster of Science, Master in Statistical Data Analysis, Master of Science, Master in Statistical Data Analysis at Ghent University
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (200)
texlive10
epub10
renv10
libgit210
sweave10
knitr10
literate-programming10
static-html10
bookdown10
javascript10
continuous-testing10
journal10
r10
shiny10
imputation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
inbo/n2khelper
Jan 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 releases, 40 PRs, 51 pushes in 9 years 2 months
natura2000r
ropensci/git2rdata
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
An R package for storing and retrieving data.frames in git repositories.
Contributions:11 releases, 5 reviews, 376 commits in 3 years 6 months
r-packagedata-framesrepositoriesversion-controlr
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