Biologist by degree, informatician by hobby, PhD in Biodiversity Informatics. Experienced in large database management and biodiversity data analysis and visualization. Previous contributions include working on the Vertnet (http://www.vertnet.org/) and Map Of Life (http://www.mol.org/) projects, developing techniques for information quality and fitness-for-use improvement.

Currently an independent contractor and consultant, specialized in large database management and development of large-scale information management tools, mainly related to biodiversity information.

Specialties: data quality, biodiversity information, database management, data visualization, web programming