Dr. Aaike De Wever is scientific data manager and coordinator of the AquaRES project at RBINS. Aaike has a background on aquatic microbial ecology in freshwater environments. For his PhD, he studied the microbial food web in Lake Tanganyika and has experience with challenging experimental fieldwork, molecular ecology and data management. After his PhD, he worked on microbial ecology of Antarctic lakes and teledection of benthic micro-algae on intertidal mudflats. For the BioFresh project he coordinated the data workflow and the creation of the public data portal. He is also actively involved in the data workpackages of the EU BON project.