Anthony Liekens – Wikipedia

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

Life and career[edit]

Liekens obtained his master’s in Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2000 with extra curricular courses at the University of Antwerp.[citation needed] 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]

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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.[11][12]

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.[13][14]. 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.

Selected academic works[edit]

Most-cited papers:[15][16]

  • 2011. Optimized filtering reduces the error rate in detecting genomic variants by short-read sequencing, Nature biotechnology.[17] According to GoogleScholar, this paper has been cited 237 times[16]
  • 2011. BioGraph: unsupervised biomedical knowledge discovery via automated hypothesis generation, Genome Biology.[18] According to GoogleScholar, this paper has been cited 136 times[16]
  • 2009. Molecular circuits for associative learning in single-celled organisms,[19]Journal of the Royal Society Interface. According to GoogleScholar, this paper has been cited 132 times[16]

Personal life[edit]

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”.[20] 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. [21]

References[edit]

  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. ^ “Fri3d Camp”. Fri3d Camp. Fri3d Camp Orga.
  12. ^ Voet, Bert (2018-11-02). ““De balans | Anthony Liekens”“. De Tijd (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  13. ^ Van Wynsberghe, Elien (2020-03-17). “Na oproep Lieven Scheire: burgerbeweging verklaart oorlog aan coronavirus”. GVA (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  14. ^ “We hebben een leger nerds opgeroepen”. De Standaard (in Dutch). 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  15. ^ Anthony Liekens at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  16. ^ a b c d Anthony Liekens publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ 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.
  21. ^ 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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