Enthusiastic clinical epidemiologist with a passion for translational research. Affiliated at the department of Epidemiology and Data Science (EDS) at the Amsterdam UMC, and my projects are embedded at the CIMM (Center for Infection & Molecular Medicine), a translational laboratory in the Amsterdam UMC-location AMC hospital. The focus of my current projects involves 1) critically ill patients in the intensive care who acquire infections and/or develop acute kidney injury, and 2) improving outcomes of kidney transplanted patients. Here I apply epidemiological analyses linking clinical data with molecular data, such as genomic information, messenger RNAs, lipids, and metabolites. With profiling the immune system in critically ill patients, I explore heterogeneity of treatment effects (HTE). Next to this, I use causal inference methods to address time-varying confounding for acquiring complications during hospital stay. On these topics, I co-supervise several PhD students (as co-promotor). I hold personal grants from the Dutch Kidney Foundation.

Clinical epidemiology, Bioinformatics, Kidney transplantation, Sepsis, Acute kidney injury, Intensive care medicine