As a researcher at Erasmus MC, I am currently working towards my PhD degree at the Department of Biostatistics and the Department of Thorax Surgery at the Erasmus University Medical Center under the supervision of Prof. Dimitris Rizopoulos, Prof. Johanna J. M. Takkenberg and Dr. Mostafa M. Mokhles.
More specifically, I am working on the development of joint models that can incorporate intermediate events (such as treatment changes, side-effects etc.) and time-varying treatments during follow-up as well as the development of individualized dynamic prediction tools which are adaptive to future changes regarding the occurrence of intermediate events or/and treatment changes.
Apart from research, I also work as a consultant and teaching assistant for the Department of Biostatistics. As a consultant, I provide advice on a broad range of statistical, study design, statistical software and methodological questions for various departments of Erasmus MC via the Consultation centre for Patient-Oriented research (CPO). This often leads to extended collaborations and deeper involvement in research projects.
As of mid-2019, I am also glad to be part of the NIHES Innovation Team. My role is to support teachers in developing online versions for their courses. Our goal is to expand the overall educational experience for the students by exploiting the flexibility, interactivity and creativity of state-of-the-art e-learning tools.
PhD Student in Biostatistics
Erasmus University Medical Center
MSc in Statistics, 2015
KU Leuven
BSc in Statistics & Actuarial Science, 2011
Univeristy of Piraeus
You can download my full CV here: CV
(Last Update: 26/10/2020)
“ Random words of wisdom in curly quotes ”
rQuote is an R-package that I developed while trying to teach myself how to develop R-packages. Doing so allowed me to practice the extensive online book on R-package development by Hadley Wickham and to learn how to create a website for my package using pkgdown. On the same time I was able to learn some web-scraping with rvest and improve my regex skills. It also made this whole process fun and creative. Most importantly, though, I got to read many random quotes. Too many random quotes. Definitely more than I should.