Esther De Loof
Business Developer & Operational Director SolidLab
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolEsther De Loof is a data-savvy business developer and operational leader with 10 years of experience translating research-grade technical concepts into real-world data sharing ecosystems. Trained as a cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD-level background in reward-based learning and computational modelling, she uniquely combines rigorous quantitative skills with a talent for stakeholder orchestration across legal, semantic and technical layers. As Operational Director of SolidLab and former Business Development lead for Inrupt in Europe, she drives adoption of semantic standards and privacy-preserving data architectures in public and private sectors. Known for championing open science and open data, she focuses on making interoperable infrastructure accessible to nontechnical audiences and policy makers. Based in Ghent, she brings both deep academic credibility and hands-on productizing experience to strengthen open data ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral Schools, Social and Behavioral Science, Doctoral Schools, Social and Behavioral Science at Ghent UniversityLatin-Mathematics, Latin-Mathematics at Virgo Sapientiae Institute Maldegem, BelgiumFull eloquence training, Full eloquence training at Art Academy AalterProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OpenWebslides/ICT-Lerarenopleiding
May 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 63 pushes, 10 comments in 2 years
OpenWebslides/openwebslides.github.io-old
Dec 2015 - Jun 2018
The old portal site for the webslides and co-creation projects
Contributions:6 PRs, 86 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 5 months
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