Curriculum Vitae

Geert Roelof van der Ploeg

Personal data

Full name: Geert Roelof van der Ploeg
Date of Birth: October 9th, 1995
Place of Birth: Groningen

Work address

Group: Data Science and Knowledge Discovery, Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering
Address: Stensberggata 27, Oslo
Email: roel@simula.no
Personal website: https://grvanderploeg.com/

Education

2025-: Post-doctoral Fellow Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering

2021-2025: PhD University of Amsterdam.
Promotor: Age Smilde
Co-promotores: Anna Heintz-Buschart, Johan Westerhuis
Thesis title: Microbiome data analysis using multiway methods

2016-2020: MSc Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / University of Amsterdam (joint degree) Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (Cum Laude).
- Thesis title 1: Validation of simulated inversion networks using gene expression data and BioGRiD.
- Thesis title 2: Investigation of SV detection in CRC using PacBio long HiFi read sequencing data.

2013-2016: BSc Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Medical Natural Sciences (Cum Laude).
- Thesis title: Influence of Aurora Kinase A on WNT/\(\beta\)-catenin signaling.

Experience

2021-2025: PhD University of Amsterdam

2020-2021: Bioinformatician Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences

Management Activities

2023-2024: PhD Council Chair University of Amsterdam
2021-2023: PhD Council member University of Amsterdam

Outreach Activities

Organizing committees

2021-2024: Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences Research Day (yearly)

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.

Supervision and Teaching

Qualifications

2023: University Teaching Qualification (BKO)

Activities

2021-: Supervision of BSc and MSc students
2021-2024: Biosystems Data Analysis MSc Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Faculty of Sciences
2021-2024: Tools in Molecular Data Analysis BSc Biological Sciences Amsterdam University College (guest lecture)
2021-2023: Image Processing and Quantitative Data Analysis MSc Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Faculty of Sciences (guest lecture)

Programming skills

MATLAB: expert
R and Rstudio: expert
Python 2 and 3: experienced
Bash: experienced
C, C++, C#: moderate
Java: moderate

Languages

Dutch: Native (C2)
English: Fluent (C1)
German: Moderate (B1)
French: Moderate (B1)
Spanish: Beginner (A2)
Norwegian: Beginner (A1)

Personal Interests

• Philosophy (of Science)
  
• Macro-economics
  
• Sociology
  
• Political science
  
• Story-rich video games