Welcome to my website! I am an applied statistician and (pharmaco)epidemiologist with a special interest in advanced statistical methods for counterfactual causal inference and an emerging interest in machine learning.

I work as Senior Biostatistician in the Data Science team of the Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL). In this position, I have time to personally perform research that matters, while also being much closer to real world implementation of that research. Recently we published on the impact of reducing smoking to the levels set by the National Cancer Agenda goals for 2032. This was picked up by national news outlets such as Algemeen Dagblad, and I got to speak on this topic on Radio 1.

I continue my commitments to academic science as well, though! I retain an affiliation with the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, where I supervise PhD students Irene Mommers and Stefan Verweij on the topic of Precision Drug Therapy & Real World Evidence.  I recently ended my affiliation with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), where previously I was the Deputy Head of the Population Health laboratory. At MPIDR, I supervised the work of PhD student Maria Gueltzow, who defended her dissertation in December 2024.

See the rest of this site for my CV, Publications, an archive of my blog posts, and my contact info.

Thanks!

Maarten