About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in AI and NLP for Healthcare at UMC Utrecht. My work combines clinically grounded machine learning, natural language processing, and practical deployment, with a focus on making AI systems useful and trustworthy in real clinical workflows.

My background spans biomedical engineering, medical image analysis, and healthcare AI. During my PhD at UMC Utrecht, I worked on medical imaging methods for orthopaedic applications, including segmentation, registration, and data-driven surgical planning simulation and support. Today, my research centers on language models, clinical documentation support, evaluation of AI systems in healthcare, and the translation of research prototypes into real-world practice.

Research interests

• Clinical use of large language models
• AI-assisted medical documentation workflows
• Trustworthy evaluation of healthcare AI
• Medical image analysis and clinically grounded ML

Background

• Assistant Prof. - NLP/AI for Healthcare
• PhD - Image Analysis for Orthopedics, UMC Utrecht
• MSc - Biomedical Engineering, TU Delft
• BSc - Life Science and Technology, TU Delft and Leiden University

Current focus

I work on AI and NLP methods that support clinicians without losing sight of clinical context, methodological rigor, or practical usability. That includes evaluation design, workflow integration, and collaboration across technical and clinical domains.