My passion is to improve care outcomes for patients by guiding the digital transformation within the healthcare sector. My strengths include collaborating with stakeholders and multidisciplinary partners, and leading projects to achieve objectives. My expertise encompasses end-to-end product development, clinical validation, and regulatory compliance. I am particularly skilled in utilizing digital tools, with a strong affinity for Python, SQL, and LLM/GPT, and I am quick to learn and adapt to new technologies.

My Work Experience

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Nov 2025 - current

Business Analyst

RSO Trijn, Utrecht, NL

  • Driving data-based insights and progress monitoring within the IZA transformation program
  • Conducting impact analyses and providing evidence-based reporting
  • Developing methods to assess organizational learning capacity and change readiness
  • Preparing progress reports and risk assessments (capacity, dependencies, resources)
  • Designing and refining KPIs in collaboration with program management
  • Creating visualizations and monitoring dashboards to track milestones and outcomes
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Nov 2022 - Oct 2025

Data Scientist

Instituut voor Zorgoptimalisatie (INSZO), Utrecht, NL

  • Implementation of healthcare indicators for general practitioners, pharmacies, and clinical labs
  • Development of proactive and reactive solutions to the information needs of these clients
  • Extraction of raw clinical data to SQL, transformation of data with Azure pipelines and Python, reports in PowerBI
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Oct 2021 - Sep 2022

Researcher

Neurocast B.V., Amsterdam, NL

  • Project lead on studies on fatigue and smartphone interactions
  • Created innovative features from NeuroKeys (keyboard app)
  • Developed design control plans for a medical device
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Apr 2017 - Sep 2021

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, NL

  • Lead person in acquisition of brain recordings and handling confidential information
  • Designed database to organize research data (150 patients, 2500 experiments)
  • Modeled and predicted brain activity with machine-learning algorithms
  • Developed automated pipelines for analysis of electrophysiological and MRI data
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Sep 2013 - Apr 2017

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Neurology, Mass General Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

  • Applied ML algorithms to detect sleep and epilepsy
  • Created a graphical user interface for sleep scoring in Python
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Nov 2007 - Aug 2008

Research Assistant

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

My Education

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Sep 2008 - Jul 2013

Ph.D. Student

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, NL

Analyzed brain recordings to determine insomnia and its clinical consequences

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Aug 2005 - Sep 2007

M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience

Radboud University Nijmegen, NL

cum laude, Psycholinguistics track

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Sep 2001 - Jul 2005

B.A. Philosophy

Università Statale degli Studi, Milano, I

Thesis on Diagrams and Representation of Reality in C.S. Pierce
Sep 2002 - Jul 2003: Exchange student at Philipps-Universität Marburg

My Skills

Product Development & Regulations

  • Medical Device Design
    • Translating user needs into design inputs
    • Preparing traceability matrix for verification & validation (ISO 13485)
  • Risk Management Preparation of severity / likelihood matrix and mitigation strategies (ISO 14971)
  • Agile Scrum
    • Sprint planning
    • Morning stand-ups
    • Sprint retrospective
    • Epics
  • Good Clinical Practices
    • BROK exam valid until 10 Feb 2025
    • Responsible for obtaining informed consent from patients and maintaining research data (ISO 14155)
  • Compliance & Privacy Organization, de-identification, and anonymization of research data (for compliance with GDPR and HIPAA)

Analytical Skills

  • Data Analysis Workflow
    • Planning
    • Extraction
    • Standardization
    • Visualization
    • Outlier detection
    • Dimensionality reduction (PCA, ICA, feature selection)
  • Statistics
    • Linear and non-linear mixed-effects analysis
    • Longitudinal analysis
    • Survival Analysis
  • Machine Learning supervised
    • OLS
    • Logistic regression
    • Support vector machine
    • Random forests
    • AdaBoost
  • Machine Learning unsupervised
    • Cluster analysis
    • Gaussian mixture
    • t-SNE
    • Neural Networks
  • Data Structuring
    • Design of relational databases of clinical and research data
    • Distributed computing

Coding Skills

  • Python
    • numpy, scipy, pandas
    • scikit-learn
    • TensorFlow / keras
    • PyQt6, plotly
    • requests
    • ipython, jupyter
    • wonambi (analysis of electrophysiological data, primary developer)
  • R
    • lme4, nlme
    • ggplot2
  • Databases
    • MySQL, MariaDB
    • SQLite
    • Amazon S3
    • Azure SQL Data Warehouse
  • Continuous Integration
    • Travis CI, CircleCI
    • Docker
  • Distributed Computing
    • Server administrator of Amazon EC2
    • Azure Data Factory
  • Collaborative Tools
    • Slack, MS Teams
    • git
    • Jira, Trello, Asana
    • Confluence, QMS documentation

Interpersonal Skills

  • Mentorship & Leadership
    • Supervision of ~10 students
    • Representative of Ph.D. students
    • Chair of several task forces
  • Collaborations Establishment and maintenance of collaboration with several institutes within the Netherlands, within Europe and in the US
  • Stakeholder Management Integrate research requirements into clinical practice of doctors, clinical coordinators, and nurses
  • Work under Stress Coordination of data acquisition in the operating room during open brain surgery

Communication Skills

  • Writing
    • 20 academic articles in peer-review international journals
    • Standard Operating Procedures
    • API documentation
    • Tutorials
  • Grants & Awards ~€60,000 received in personal grants, travel grants, and scholarships
  • Oral Presentations
    • 15 oral presentations at international conferences
    • Guest lecturer on neuroscience to B.Sc. and M.Sc. students at Radboud University