Short CV
1/3/2016-present: principal statistican at the Janssen pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson
2016: PhD in statistics, Center for Statistics, Hasselt University and KULeuven (Belgium)
10/2012-1/3/2016: doctoral researcher, Center for Statistics, Hasselt University and KULeuven (Belgium)
2009-2012: MSc in Biostatistics, Hasselt University (Belgium)
2012-10/2012: Post doctoral researcher, Dept. Psychology and Education, VU Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2006-2012: Post doctoral researcher, Dept. Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
2006: PhD in psychology/psychometrics, Dept. Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
2001: MSc in psychology, Dept. Psychology, KULeuven (Belgium)
Research intrests
- Statistical modeling
- Validation of surrogate markers
- Cognitive development and cognitive decline
- Cognitive assessment and psychometrics (classical test theory and item response theory)
Teaching areas
- Database management in statistics (master statistics)
- Project discovering associations (master statistics)
- Cognitive aging (master psychology)
- Brain damage (master psychology)
- Research methods and designs (research master psychology)
- Psychodiagnostics (bachelor psychology)
- Aging (bachelor medicine)
Some links to useful software packages
- R: an open source software environment for statistical computing
- R commander: a GUI frontend for R
- Ubuntu: an open source linux (unix-based) operating system
- Openoffice: an open source office suite for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations