Bas manages and contributes to projects that develop soil information products and systems and takes care of the operational management of ISRIC.

Bas is a soil scientist with a PhD in digital soil mapping from Wageningen University, an MSc in Soil Inventory and Land Evaluation and an MSc in Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing from the same institute. 

His professional career evolved around developing soil information products with digital soil mapping techniques in various countries worldwide, including Namibia, Rwanda and Tanzania. Bas started his career at Wageningen Environmental Research, where he worked on updating soil maps of Dutch peatlands. 

He joined ISRIC in 2012, coordinating digital soil mapping projects and contributing to developing ISRIC’s flagship product SoilGrids. Besides digital soil mapping, Bas is interested in sampling theory and designing sampling schemes for soil data collection and monitoring. He served as the lead investigator for the design of a continental soil monitoring scheme for the Soils4Africa project.

Bas actively participates in ISRIC’s training programmes. He develops training materials and has delivered training courses on digital soil mapping for soil scientists in Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Namibia, Kenya, Nepal, India, and Russia. He also teaches during ISRIC’s annual spring school.

Bas speaks English and Dutch.