My passion is working in a team to generate valuable and actionable insights from our complex environment through robust protocol design, clever data organization, and advanced analysis techniques. I enjoy developing strategies and studies for clinical evaluation, presenting the findings to stakeholders, and also writing Python and SQL analysis code.

My Work Experience

Nov 2022 - current

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
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 ing design control plans for a medical device
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
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
Nov 2007 - Aug 2008

Research Assistant

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

My Education

Sep 2008 - Jul 2013

Ph.D. Student

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, NL

Analyzed brain recordings to determine insomnia and its clinical consequences

Aug 2005 - Sep 2007

M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience

Radboud University Nijmegen, NL

cum laude, Psycholinguistics track

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 unil 10 Feb 2025
    • Responsible for obtaining informed consent from patients and maintaining research data (ISO 14155)
  • Compliance & Privacy Organization, de-identifaction, and anonymization of research based (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

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