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
NationalityBelgian
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

Liekens obtained his master's in Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2000 with extra curricular courses at the University of Antwerp. In 2005 his work on photography from Saturn's moon Titan was published.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Liekens operates the Open Garage hackerspace, residing as Belgian national radio's scientist where he shares educational knowledge with the community.[8][9]

Anthony Liekens launched 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.[10]

Selected academic works

Most-cited papers:[11][12]

  • 2011. Optimized filtering reduces the error rate in detecting genomic variants by short-read sequencing, Nature biotechnology.[13] According to GoogleScholar, this paper has been cited 183 times[12]
  • 2011. BioGraph: unsupervised biomedical knowledge discovery via automated hypothesis generation, Genome Biology.[14] According to GoogleScholar, this paper has been cited 113 times[12]
  • 2009. Molecular circuits for associative learning in single-celled organisms,[15] Journal of the Royal Society Interface. According to GoogleScholar, this paper has been cited 91 times[12]

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".

References
  1. "Team Scheire - Homepage". Canvas.
  2. "Enthusiast compositions of the Huygens images". Anthony Liekens.
  3. Peplow, Mark (17 January 2005). "Amateurs beat space agencies to Titan pictures". news@nature. doi:10.1038/news050117-7.
  4. "Amateurs who beat Nasa over the moon". The Times. 21 January 2005.
  5. "Moon river?". The Economist. 20 January 2005.
  6. "Amateurs Beat Space Agencies To Titan Pictures - Slashdot". science.slashdot.org.
  7. "Panoramas from Titan. *WOW* is about all we can add". FARK.com.
  8. "Meetup: Open Garage Hackerspace". Meetup.com.
  9. "Radio 1: De wereld van wetenschap voor ons uitgelegd". Radio 1. 2015-06-05.
  10. "Uitvinder Vlaams woordenboek zoekt overnemer: "Ik heb geen tijd meer, maar deze taalrijkdom mag niet verloren gaan"".
  11. Anthony Liekens at DBLP Bibliography Server
  12. Anthony Liekens publications indexed by Google Scholar
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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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