Experience

  1. Co-owner & Remote Sensing

    SmartCane BV

    Co-founded SmartCane BV to use satellite imagery for sugarcane monitoring. Work includes:

    • Building monitoring systems using satellite data
    • Working with clients to understand their needs
    • Developing the product and planning strategy
    • Setting up and testing the technical systems

  2. Remote Sensing — Water Informatics Team

    World Bank

    Using satellite imagery and data to help understand water resources. Work includes:

    • Monitoring water resources with satellite data
    • Analyzing satellite imagery for water-related questions
    • Preparing technical reports and analysis
    • Working with teams across different countries

  3. Spatial Data Analyst & Saterra Labs Lead

    Resilience BV / Saterra Labs

    Using satellite data and hydrology to help development programs understand their landscapes in sub-Saharan Africa. Saterra Labs gets the most out of satellite data and other available information in regions where data is limited.

    Main areas of work:

    • Assessing water resources and hydrological modeling
    • Mapping smallholder irrigation and agriculture
    • Monitoring environmental changes and land use
    • Working with clients and developing solutions

  4. Lacrosse trainer men

    Sportcentrum de Bongerd

    Responsibilities include:

    • Preperation of practices every week
    • Teaching individuals at skill level

  5. Freelancer

    Freelance
    Remote sensing, programming, product development.

  6. Intern - Remote Sensing

    Kagera Sugar Ltd.
    MSc internship on crop health monitoring with remote sensing at a large sugarcane estate in Tanzania.

  7. Board Member - VP Men

    Wageningen Warriors Lacrosse
    Board year as VP Men for the Wageningen student lacrosse association (6th board). Been part of the club since it was founded in 2013.

  8. Board Member (part-time)

    AIESEC Wageningen
    Part-time board role at the Wageningen chapter of AIESEC during my BSc.

  9. Intern - BSc Thesis & Internship

    Aquafondo / Wageningen University
    BSc thesis and internship in Lima and Huamantanga, Peru with conservation NGO Aquafondo. Studying traditional water management in the Andes — this is where the mamanteo project started.

Education

  1. PhD Remote sensing of irrigated agriculture

    Wageningen University
    Thesis on Mapping irrigated agriculture. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Charlotte de Fraiture, Dr Ir. Gert Jan Veldwisch& Dr Ir. Poolad Karimi.

  2. MSc International Land and Water management

    Wageningen University

    I followed courses on irrigation engineering and geo-hydrology.

    • Thesis: Soil physical characteristics, hydrological flow paths and the water balance: An assessment for a small agricultural catchment in Norway, as simulated by DRAINMOD (2017).
    • Internship: Crop health monitoring with remote sensing at Kagera Sugar, Tanzania.
    • Board year at Wageningen Warriors as VP men and various committees.

  3. MSc Geo-Information Sciences

    Wageningen University

    I followed courses on programming, geodata management, goedata visualisation and remote sensing.

    • Thesis: Space for time - How do peatland vegetation patterns develop through time? (2018).
    • Internship and other activities: see MSc International Land and Water management -> double degree.

  4. BSc International Land and Water management

    Wageningen University

    My courses ranged from soil & water physics and engineering to development economics and implementation of soil and water projects in different cultures.

    • Internship and thesis in Lima and Huamantanga in Peru with Aquafondo (2014).

    In addition, I:

    • did a minor in Geo-Information for Environment and Society.
    • was part of multiple committees at S.A. Nitocra.
    • was in the (part-time) board of AIESEC Wageningen.
    • was the drummer in the band The Chestnut.
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
R

terra, sf, tidyverse
Python

geopandas, gdal
Geodata analysis and classification
Remote Sensing

Sentinels 1 & 2, Planetscope
Machine learning

rf, svm, nnet, kmeans,
Hobbies
Hiking/Walking with my dog

Daily walks and multi-day trail hikes
Drums

Pearl & Istanbul kits — formerly drummer in student band The Chestnut
Box lacrosse

2 World Championships (2019, 2024) & 2 European Championships (2022, 2026)
Camping

Multi-week trips through Scandinavia and Patagonia
Other skills
Woodworking
Gardening
Languages
English
Fluent
Dutch
Fluent
Portuguese
Conversational
Spanish
Conversational