Summary

Independent researcher and consultant in the domains of geospatial data, data infrastructures and digital transformation

Education

• Ph.D in Social Sciences

  2013
  KU Leuven (Belgium)
• MSc. in Management of Public Administration

  2007
  Ghent University (Belgium)
• MSc. in Social Sciences

  2006
  KU Leuven (Belgium)

Work Experience

• Owner and Senior Expert

  2025 - ...
  GEONOTGEO, Belgium
• Research Manager

  2018 - 2024
  Spatial Applications Division Leuven (SADL), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Post-doctoral Researcher

  2016 - 2018
  Knowledge Centre Open Data, TU Delft, the Netherlands
• Senior Researcher

  2012 - 2016
  Spatial Applications Division Leuven (SADL), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Junior Researcher

  2007 - 2011
  Public Governance Institute (PGI), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Publications

• Evolution of the access to spatial data for environmental purposes

  2022
  JRC Technical Report

  This study investigates how different user communities in Europe are accessing and using spatial data, the problems they are facing and how they see the impact of various policy initiatives on improving the accessibility and usability of data.

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• Geospatial Information Infrastructures

  2020
  Manual of Digital Earth

  Geospatial information infrastructures (GIIs) provide the technological, semantic, organizational and legal structure that allow for the discovery, sharing, and use of geospatial information (GI). In this chapter, we introduce the overall concept and surrounding notions such as geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial data infrastructures (SDI).

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• Assessing the Openness of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI): Towards a Map of Open SDI

  2018
  International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research

  This paper introduces the Open Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Assessment Framework as a new approach for assessing the openness of SDIs.

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• Open Data Exposed

  2018
  Springer

  The main objectives of this book are to expose key aspects that have a relevance when dealing with open data viewed from different perspectives and to provide appealing examples of how open data is implemented worldwide.

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• Coordination in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructures

  2013
  PhD Thesis

  In my PhD research I explored how different coordination instruments and mechanisms are used to coordinate the exchange of, the access to and to use of spatial data.

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Teaching

• Organisational components of Spatial Data Infrastructures

  2024
  KU Leuven, Geospatial Information Technologies

  Role: Guest lecture
• Increasing impact through effective communication, dissemination and exploitation

  2024
  ODECO Training Week 4 'Towards an inclusive open data ecosystem

  Role: Training
• Business and funding models

  2022
  SEED4NA Training on Basics of SDI

  Role: Online training
• Location Intelligence for Cities and Regions

  2019
  ELISE Knowledge Transfer

  Role: Webinar
• Assessment of Spatial Data Infrastructures

  2018
  Delft University of Technology, Geo-information Organisation and Legislation

  Role: Lecture

Portfolio

• SPATIALIST - SDI for Public Sector Innovation (2007-2011)

  2011
  Portfolio

  Network analysis of the SDI of Flanders
  

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• Effective Governance of Open Spatial Data (2016-2018)

  2018
  Portfolio

  Assessing the Openness of Spatial Data Infrastructures
  

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• SEED4NA - Spatial Data Infrastructures and Earth Observation Education and Training for North-Africa (2020-2024)

  2024
  Portfolio

  SEED4NA Curriculum on SDI/EO
  

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