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

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

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, Anthony 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, Anthony Liekens took the initiative to organize 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

On 11 March 2020, days before the COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium, Anthony 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]
  • On 17 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

Liekens is married and has 2 children.

In March 2023 he was charged with sexually molesting an 11 year old girl. Charging documents state he considered the alleged crimes to be a "science experiment".[33] The court later sentenced Liekens to 40 months in prison with probation. A restraining order was also imposed and he was stripped of all public rights for a term of ten years. To the victim and her parents, he must pay damages of nearly 5.000 euros. [34]

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.
  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. 2015-06-05.
  11. ^ Hobson, James (2013-10-22). "Hackerspacing in Europe: Open Garage in Antwerp". Hackaday.
  12. ^ "Vlaams Woordenboek". Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  13. ^ "Uitvinder Vlaams woordenboek zoekt overnemer: "Ik heb geen tijd meer, maar deze taalrijkdom mag niet verloren gaan"".
  14. ^ "Fri3d Camp". Fri3d Camp. Fri3d Camp Orga.
  15. ^ Voet, Bert (2018-11-02). ""De balans | Anthony Liekens"". De Tijd (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  16. ^ Adriaensen, Wouter (2016-08-16). "Driedaags kamp in De Hoge Rielen leidt hackers op" [Three-day camp in De Hoge Rielen trains hackers]. Gazet van Antwerpen (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  17. ^ Van Wynsberghe, Elien (2020-03-17). "Na oproep Lieven Scheire: burgerbeweging verklaart oorlog aan coronavirus". GVA (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  18. ^ "We hebben een leger nerds opgeroepen". De Standaard (in Dutch). 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  19. ^ "De Grote Coronastudie" (in Dutch). Universiteit Antwerpen. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  20. ^ "Transparent masks made for deaf people in Belgium". United Nations SDG Action Awards. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  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 2023-04-21.
  23. ^ "Jeugdhulp kiest #Praatbox, een initiatief van @coronadenktank, als veilige standard voor videobellen". Vlaanderen Helemaal Digitaal. 2020-07-13. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  24. ^ "Digital for Youth geeft duizenden afgedankte laptops een nieuw leven". Digital For Youth. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  25. ^ "Fablab voor zuurstof". Flanders Make. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  26. ^ "Emergency solution to shortage of ventilators for Covid-19 patients". VUB. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  27. ^ Feyten, Filip (2020-09-02). "Koning Filip ontvangt de laureaten van #HoopDoetLeven: wie zijn deze zes "coronahelden"?". VRT NWS. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  28. ^ Anthony Liekens at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  29. ^ a b c d Anthony Liekens publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  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.
  33. ^ Lefelon, Patrick (2023-03-20). "Uitvinder uit 'Team Scheire' randt 11-jarig meisje aan "uit wetenschappelijke nieuwsgierigheid"" [Inventor from `Team Scheire` molests 11 year old girl out of "scientific curiosity"]. Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2023-03-21. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  34. ^ Lefelon, Patrick (2023-04-17). "Straf met uitstel voor familievriend die meisje (11) aanrandde "uit wetenschappelijke nieuwsgierigheid"" [Sentence with reprieve for family friend who assaulted girl (11) "out of scientific curiosity"]. Gazet Van Antwerpen (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2023-04-17. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
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