Jesper Cairo Westergaard

CV

2012-now: PLEN (Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences)

• 2014-now: Official title: Research IT Coordinator. Employed in the Section for Crop Scienses, Taastrup Campus.
  
  Responsibilities:
  Research/development: Project 6P/NPPN: Flying/imaging with drones. Developing a platform for data extraction from orthomosaics.
  Research support: Coordinator of data infrastructure on Phenolab and the Climate Station. Co-advisor on the data infrastructure for RadiMax.
  Appointed: Member of the departements IT committee. Member of the departments IT Contact Comittee.
  
  
• 2012-2014: Official title: Research IT Coordinator. Employed in the Section for Crop Scienses, Taastrup Campus.
  
  Responsibilities:
  Readiness Coordinator, IT Security Coordinator, misc research IT advice/consulting, IP telephony (Lync), cell phone acquisitions, chairman of the departments IT committee, primary contact for the faculty's IT department regarding service level agreements negotiations and other issues (incl. member of the departments IT Contact Comittee). 

2005-2012: Webmaster at IGM (Department of Basic Sciences and Environment, Frederiksberg Campus).

1998-2005: IT-support for students, teaching in IT-LearningCenter. Misc tasks with programming, building/maintaining websites and IT-support at several departments (Frederiksberg Campus).

Short presentation

I work at the Section for Crop Sciences at the Taastrup Campus (map).

For the Public Private Partnership - Plant Phenotyping Project (6p):

• Authored and responsible for 6P's work package 1: "Development of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure".
• Flying/imaging with drones (both at our research fields in Taastrup and for/with our project partners).
• Developing a platform (named PlotCut) for data extraction from the research plots in the orthomosaics we get from our aerial imaging.
• Partaking in arranging workshops and courses within the Nordic Plant Phenotyping Network (NPPN).

Other responsibilities:

• Coordinator of data infrastructure for: The PLEN PhenoLab.
• Coordinator of data infrastructure for:The PLEN Climate Station.
• Co-advisor on the data infrastructure for the root research facility RadiMax (press release).