About

Personal information

G.R. (Roel) van der Ploeg

Work address:
Data Science and Knowledge Discovery,
Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering,
Stensberggata 27,
Oslo

Work phone: +31 205257931
Email: g.r.ploeg@uva.nl
Personal website: https://grvanderploeg.github.io/

Curriculum Vitae

For a complete overview, please see CV.

Professional Career

Roel van der Ploeg studied Medical Natural Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he received with BSc degree cum laude in 2016. He then studied Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, which is a joint MSc degree between the Vrije Universiteit and University of Amsterdam, which he completed cum laude in 2020. He finished his PhD training in 2025 with a thesis entitled “Microbiome data analysis using multiway methods”.

Research interest

Roel van der Ploeg is currently a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Data Science and Knowledge Discovery department at Simula Metropolitan in Oslo. His main research interest is multi-way data integration for microbiome data. Previous published work revolves around the application of Parallel Factor Analysis (PARAFAC) on longitudinal microbiome data. Future projects include the application of N-way partial least-squares (N-PLS) and Advanced Coupled Matrix and Tensor Factorization (ACMTF).

Publications

For an up-to-date overview, please see publications.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2FgATEsAAAAJ&hl=nl
ORCID: 0009-0007-5204-3386

Presentations

For an up-to-date overview, please see presentations.

R packages

parafac4microbiome: Parallel Factor Analysis Modelling of Longitudinal Microbiome Data.
NPLStoolbox: N-way Partial Least Squares for Longitudinal Microbiome data.
CMTFtoolbox: integration of multi-way datasets using Advanced Coupled and Matrix Tensor Factorization.