Anthony Liekens

Anthony Liekens (born 12 December 1975) is a Belgian informaticist, biologist, inventor and educator.

Anthony Liekens
Born(1975-12-12)12 December 1975
Sint Niklaas, Belgium
Known forTeam Scheire[1]
Scientific career
FieldsEngineering, Electronics
InstitutionsEindhoven University of Technology
University of Antwerp
IO lab
Makerspace Antwerpen
Websiteanthony.liekens.net

Life and career

Anthony Liekens obtained his master's in computer science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2000 with extra curricular courses at the University of Antwerp and obtained his PhD in biomedical technology at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2005.[2]

In 2005 his work on photography from Saturn's moon Titan was published.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Liekens operates the Open Garage hackerspace, residing as Belgian national radio's scientist where he shares educational knowledge with the community.[9][10][11]

Vlaams Woordenboek

In September 2007, Liekens launched Vlaams Woordenboek,[12] a website with the aim of establishing an online Flemish dialectal dictionary. However, he looked for a "buyer" in 2021, seeing that he was busy with his professional career.[13]

Fri3d Camp

In 2014, Liekens organized Fri3d Camp. Since then, Fri3d Camp has been a 2-yearly family-friendly hacker camp that is seen as the main Belgian hacker camp, next to peers such as Chaos Communication Camp in Germany and Electromagnetic Field (festival) in the UK.[14][15][16]

Corona Denktank

In March 2020, days before the COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium, Liekens founded Corona Denktank, a civil movement that designed and built alternative solutions to lessen the suffering and to reduce the spread of the virus.[17][18] Under his leadership, the movement grew to tens of thousands of contributors. After two weeks, Liekens restructured the citizen movement to become a flat organization with a do-ocracy governance model.

Over its two months of operation, Corona Denktank initiated over 40 projects, most of which spun off into their own independent projects, the most notable include:

  • Corona Denktank instigated the distributed production of an estimated 1.8 million homemade facemasks[19] and 50 thousand protective face caps. The United Nations granted a Sustainable Development Goals Solidarity Action Award for the design of transparent facemasks for those who are deaf and hard of hearing.[20][21]
  • In March 2020, Corona Denktank launched Praatbox, a barrier-free videoconferencing tool without accounts which quickly grew to 40 thousand users per day, mainly introducing school children and elderly people to videoconferencing.[22] The Flemish Youth Council recommended Praatbox as the safest standard for videoconferencing for use in juvenile court and social youth services.[23]
  • In collaboration with Digital For Youth, Corona Denktank collected and distributed 15 thousand laptops to school children.[24]
  • Corona Denktank initiated the design of DIY respirators[25] and multi-patient ventilators.[26]
  • Corona Denktank translated and published official health guidelines into Belgium's 3 official languages and 20 other languages.
  • With HoopDoetLeven, Corona Denktank collaborated with king Philippe of Belgium to honor heroes of the pandemic.[27]

Selected academic works

Most-cited papers:[28][29]

  • 2011. Optimized filtering reduces the error rate in detecting genomic variants by short-read sequencing, Nature biotechnology.[30] According to GoogleScholar, this paper has been cited 237 times[29]
  • 2011. BioGraph: unsupervised biomedical knowledge discovery via automated hypothesis generation, Genome Biology.[31] According to GoogleScholar, this paper has been cited 136 times[29]
  • 2009. Molecular circuits for associative learning in single-celled organisms,[32] Journal of the Royal Society Interface. According to GoogleScholar, this paper has been cited 132 times[29]

Personal life

He is married and has 2 children.

References
  1. "Team Scheire - Homepage". Canvas.
  2. Liekens, Anthony. "Evolution of finite populations in dynamic environments".
  3. "Enthusiast compositions of the Huygens images". Anthony Liekens. Archived from the original on 17 January 2005. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  4. Peplow, Mark (17 January 2005). "Amateurs beat space agencies to Titan pictures". news@nature. doi:10.1038/news050117-7.
  5. "Amateurs who beat Nasa over the moon". The Times. 21 January 2005.
  6. "Moon river?". The Economist. 20 January 2005.
  7. "Amateurs Beat Space Agencies To Titan Pictures - Slashdot". science.slashdot.org.
  8. "Panoramas from Titan. *WOW* is about all we can add". FARK.com.
  9. "Meetup: Open Garage Hackerspace". Meetup.com.
  10. "Radio 1: De wereld van wetenschap voor ons uitgelegd". Radio 1. 5 June 2015.
  11. Hobson, James (22 October 2013). "Hackerspacing in Europe: Open Garage in Antwerp". Hackaday.
  12. "Vlaams Woordenboek". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  13. "Uitvinder Vlaams woordenboek zoekt overnemer: "Ik heb geen tijd meer, maar deze taalrijkdom mag niet verloren gaan"". www.nieuwsblad.be. 16 February 2021.
  14. "Fri3d Camp". Fri3d Camp. Fri3d Camp Orga.
  15. Voet, Bert (2 November 2018). ""De balans | Anthony Liekens"". De Tijd (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  16. Adriaensen, Wouter (16 August 2016). "Driedaags kamp in De Hoge Rielen leidt hackers op" [Three-day camp in De Hoge Rielen trains hackers]. Gazet van Antwerpen (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  17. Van Wynsberghe, Elien (17 March 2020). "Na oproep Lieven Scheire: burgerbeweging verklaart oorlog aan coronavirus". GVA (in Dutch). Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  18. "We hebben een leger nerds opgeroepen". De Standaard (in Dutch). 1 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  19. "De Grote Coronastudie" (in Dutch). Universiteit Antwerpen. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  20. "Transparent masks made for deaf people in Belgium". United Nations SDG Action Awards. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  21. "COVID-19: Transparent masks made for the deaf and hard of hearing in Belgium". United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe. United Nations. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  22. "Praatbox.be". Corona Denktank. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  23. "Jeugdhulp kiest #Praatbox, een initiatief van @coronadenktank, als veilige standard voor videobellen". Vlaanderen Helemaal Digitaal. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  24. "Digital for Youth geeft duizenden afgedankte laptops een nieuw leven". Digital For Youth. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  25. "Fablab voor zuurstof". Flanders Make. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  26. "Emergency solution to shortage of ventilators for Covid-19 patients". VUB. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  27. Feyten, Filip (2 September 2020). "Koning Filip ontvangt de laureaten van #HoopDoetLeven: wie zijn deze zes "coronahelden"?". VRT NWS. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  28. Anthony Liekens at DBLP Bibliography Server
  29. Anthony Liekens publications indexed by Google Scholar
  30. Reumers, Joke; De Rijk, Peter; Zhao, Hui; Liekens, Anthony; Smeets, Dominiek; Cleary, John; Van Loo, Peter; Van Den Bossche, Maarten; Catthoor, Kirsten; Sabbe, Bernard; Despierre, Evelyn; Vergote, Ignace; Hilbush, Brian; Lambrechts, Diether; Del-Favero, Jurgen (18 December 2011). "Optimized filtering reduces the error rate in detecting genomic variants by short-read sequencing". Nature Biotechnology. 30 (1): 61–68. doi:10.1038/nbt.2053. PMID 22178994.
  31. Liekens, Anthony ML; De Knijf, Jeroen; Daelemans, Walter; Goethals, Bart; De Rijk, Peter; Del-Favero, Jurgen (2011). "BioGraph: unsupervised biomedical knowledge discovery via automated hypothesis generation". Genome Biology. 12 (6): R57. doi:10.1186/gb-2011-12-6-r57. PMC 3218845. PMID 21696594.
  32. Fernando, Chrisantha T; Liekens, Anthony M.L; Bingle, Lewis E.H; Beck, Christian; Lenser, Thorsten; Stekel, Dov J; Rowe, Jonathan E (6 May 2009). "Molecular circuits for associative learning in single-celled organisms". Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 6 (34): 463–469. doi:10.1098/rsif.2008.0344. PMC 2582189. PMID 18835803.
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