Willem聽Maetens
Coordinator Waterinfo
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolWillem Maetens is a bioscience engineer and water management researcher with eight years of experience bridging hydrology, geography, climate science and data to tackle droughts and floods. He coordinates the Hydrological Extremes crisis and information platform at Waterinfo while conducting R&D on drought monitoring, modelling and water data management at the Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij. Previously he translated pan-European research into operational tools as a Project Officer at the European Commission鈥檚 JRC for the EDORA drought observatory. Trained as a Doctor of Sciences in Geography from KU Leuven, he combines field-focused hydrometric quality assurance with data-driven modelling to improve regional resilience. Known for navigating both scientific research and practical agency operations, he often turns complex climate and hydrologic data into actionable monitoring and reporting systems.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad de C贸rdobaDoctor of Sciences, Geography, Doctor of Sciences, Geography at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenAlgemeen Secundair Onderwijs, Latijn - Wiskunde (8u.), Algemeen Secundair Onderwijs, Latijn - Wiskunde (8u.) at Sint-Donatus
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Github Skills (14)
ropensci9
r-package9
water9
weather8
api7
httr6
open-science6
raster6
geotiff6
r6
time-series3
zoo3
uniform3
extensible2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
WillemMaetens/standaRdized
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 release, 56 commits, 56 pushes in 15 days
WillemMaetens/xts-mods
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Extensible time series class that provides uniform handling of many R time series classes by extending zoo.
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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