Robin Zwijgers | Advisor

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As an advisor within Probos, Robin mainly works in the field of data provision. Making readable graphs from complicated data: that's what he likes. Especially when this data helps in discussions about forest management views.

His favorite tree or forest? “A pine forest on the sandy soils on a warm, dry summer day. As far as I'm concerned, an underrated forest type. A warm gust of wind with the smell of sand and pine in these woods takes me back to the holidays and summer camps of my youth.”

After an interesting bachelor's degree, Robin opted for something that better suited his interests: Dutch forests. While studying Forest and Nature Conservation at WUR, he noticed that this was the right decision and wrote his thesis at Wageningen Environmental Research (WEnR). To this end, he conducted a data analysis using data from the Dutch National Forest Inventory (NBI) to investigate issues about forest owners and timber harvesting. He completed his Master with an internship at Bosgroep Zuid-Nederland where he improved the height growth function of a forest growth model based on the NBI data. Together with his interests in current affairs and developments surrounding Dutch forest management, this provided a good basis for his work at Probos.