Jonas Defoort

Jonas Defoort is a digital architect at BASF Agricultural Solutions, where they focus on the development of bioinformatics solutions and the digitalization of research. With experience as a computational scientist at Bayer Crop Science and as a product owner leading a cross-functional agile scrum team at BASF, they excel in bridging the gap between scientists and software developers. Jonas holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from Ghent University, where their research investigated the evolutionary forces acting on gene loss and gain in angiosperms. They also have a strong background in project and logistics management from their leadership role at Route du Soleil.