About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in AI and NLP for Healthcare at UMC Utrecht. My research combines clinically grounded machine learning with practical deployment, focusing on language models, trustworthy automation, and data-driven support for patient care.

Education

• BSc, Life Science and Technology, TU Delft and Leiden University, 2011-2015
• MSc, Biomedical Engineering, TU Delft, 2015-2017
• PhD, Image Analysis for Orthopedics, UMC Utrecht, 2017-2022

Career

• PhD Researcher, UMC Utrecht, 2017-2022
• Technical Lead, Presurgeo, 2021-2022
• Senior Specialist Data Science, Valcon, 2023-2024
• Assistant Professor AI and NLP, Julius Center UMC Utrecht, 2024-present

Research themes

• Clinical validation of LLM-assisted workflows
• AI for medical documentation and care process support
• Methods at the intersection of NLP and medical image analysis
• Development of novel LLM architectures and paradigms

Profiles

• Google Scholar
• GitHub
• Hugging Face Spaces
• ORCID

Teaching and mentoring

Teaching details and course overview are available on the Teaching page.