I am a postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. I study natural products - specialized metabolites with fascinating properties, such as antibiotic activity. Trained as a pharmacist, I became increasingly drawn to programming and am now a self-taught bioinformatician and software engineer. I enjoy working at the intersection of wet-lab experiments and computational analysis, using both to uncover new bioactive natural products.

Currently, my work focuses on developing software tools to prioritize natural products, with additional interests in biocuration and sustainable research data infrastructures.

Interested in my work and want to collaborate? Get in touch!

Current projects (selection)

• MITE DB, a database on enzymes involved in natural product biosynthesis (developer and maintainer)
• FERMO, an online metabolomics analysis tool (developer and maintainer)
• decRiPPter v2, a machine learning tool for gene cluster detection (developer)