With the Resilience Hub, we offer a shared data infrastructure, powering crop resilience research.
What is the Resilience Hub?

Extensive data infrastructure
With the Resilience Hub, we offer an extensive data infrastructure encompassing data and tools related to crop resilience.

Facilitating and enhancing
The Resilience Hub facilitates and enhances all the work within CropXR aimed at improving crop resilience.

Available for all
CropXR partners
All CropXR partners can use the Resilience Hub to store, process, share and access data.

Empowering a global
community of experts
In the future, we aim to make the Resilience Hub available to a community of experts around the world.
Approach

FAIR data and agile development
All data is stored based on the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
Integrating proven methods
We integrate already existing tools and knowledge of infrastructures that have proven to function properly into the design of the Resilience Hub.
Synergy through
integrated approach
By integrating all the knowledge obtained, the models created, and data generated, the Resilience Hub can ignite even more top-notch insights.
Empowering researchers
The Resilience Hub empowers researchers by enabling them to use data from a wide range of sources, including the latest technologies, while also deploying machine learning and AI.
Activities
The work of the Resilience Hub team includes data governance, IT infrastructure, the use of AI and the implementation of standards.
State-of-the-art
IT infrastructure
We use a state of the art IT infrastructure. In addition, we use custom-made AI to collect metadata, reducing the workload for researchers.
Standardisation
and Metadata
Expertise groups promote the practical use of standards and metadata. We collaborate with
existing parties that engage in standardization.
Data Code of Conduct
Together with a data user group, a Data Code of Conduct has been compiled.
Future Outlook: Expanding Access Beyond CropXR
The requirements and possibilities to access the hub by others outside the consortium will be further developed in the coming years.

Meet our People
I hope to establish an inclusive data culture.
Sören Wacker, Senior HPC (High Performance Computing) Research Engineer at CropXR
Work Package Leaders
- Auke Damstra, Technology Director CropXR
- Christoph Lofi, Assistant Professor, TUDWork Package Leaders
Team
- Aalt-Jan van Dijk, Professor Data Analysis, UvA
- Balu Estamsetty, Data Architect, TU Delft
- Bart Rentenaar, Manager Smart Data Platform, Enza Zaden – industrial partner
- Basten Snoek, Assistant Professor, UU
- Bianca Cosma, PhD machine learning in crop resilience, TU Delft
- Breza Witmond, Data Engineer, TU Delft
- Camillo Berenos, Research Director, Dümmen Orange – industrial partner
Darya Biparva, postdoc, TU Delft
- Darya Biparva, Postdoc, TU Delft
- Dick de Ridder, Professor Bioinformatics and AI, WUR
- Dmitry Lapin, Assistant Professor, UU
- Erwin van Arkelen, Team Lead Information Management R&D, Rijk Zwaan – industrial partner
- Eva Eleonora Ferradosa, PhD candidate, TU Delft
- Geo Velikkakam James, Team Lead Computational Biology, Rijk Zwaan – industrial partner
- Guido van den Ackerveken, Professor and chair of Translation Plant Biology & Scientific Director CropXR, UU
- Johan Bijleveld, Manager Enterprise Architecture & Security, Enza Zaden – industrial partner
- Jurek Leonhardt, Data science engineer, TU Delft
- Kirsten ten Tusscher, Professor of Computational Developmental Biology, UU
- Lidija Berke, Group Leader Bioinformatics and Software Development,
- Nikkie van Bers, Head of Innovation and Application, Genetwister Technologies – industrial partner
- Mahshad Keshtiarast Esfahani, PhD candidate, TU Delft
- Marcel Reinders, Professor of Bioinformatics, TU Delft
- Marcel van Verk, Team Leader Crop Data Science, KeyGene – industrial partner
- Melissa Spitteler, Innovation coordinator, TU Delft
- Monica Garcia Gomez, Assistant professor, UU
- Mon-Ray Shao, Project Lead Artificial Intelligence, UU
- Remco Ursem, Program Leader Bioinformatics, HZPC – industrial partner
- Saulo Aflitos, Senior Researcher Bioinformatics, Bejo Zaden – industrial partner
- Sören Wacker, Senior HPC Research Engineer, TU Delft
- Thomas Abeel, Associate Professor, TU Delft
