Lennert Tyberghein is Director of the Science Support Department at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in Belgium. He holds a PhD in marine biology and specializes in biodiversity, marine ecology, and data management. Tyberghein is co-author of Bio-ORACLE, a major dataset for marine species distribution modelling. His work focuses on integrating environmental and biological data for ocean research. He contributes actively to international marine data and open-science initiatives.
