Profile:
- Clinical Data Scientist with a PhD in Biochemistry and over a decade of combined academic and industrial experience in clinical and biomedical research
- My interdisciplinary background - spanning molecular biology, cardiology, neurology, and data science - gives me both the medical knowledge to understand clinical data in context and the analytical and mathematical depth to manage, analyse, model, and extract meaningful insights from it
- Through involvement in clinical studies and regulatory environments, I have developed the ability to bridge medicine, statistics, and communication: translating complex data into clear, accurate, and regulatory-compliant reports that drive decisions in pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device settings
Teaching:
2024 - today:
Place of Work: Paris
Role: Lecturer in Data Anonymization for Healthcare
Customer: Aivancity School of Data Science & AI, Paris
2017 - 2024:
Place of Work:
Düsseldorf
Role: Lecturer in neurophysiology, sensory physiology, and ion channel pathologies
Customer: HHU Düsseldorf
Clinical Studies & Regulatory Affairs:
- Clinical trial design and statistical input across all phases: protocol, study design, sample size, and Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs).
- Statistical programming: development of reusable functions and macros, program validation, and output generation.
- Production of Tables, Figures, and Listings (TFLs) for clinical study reports and regulatory submissions.
- CDISC standards: SDTM and ADaM data structure and mapping.
- EDC systems: MaganaMed, REDCap; eCRF design, implementation, and management.
- Clinical data monitoring, query management, and data cleaning.
- Creation and review of Data Management Plans (DMPs).
- Regulatory compliance: GCP (ICH E6(R2)), FDA (21 CFR Part 11), EMA, GDPR, MDR, GMP, HIPAA.
- Data anonymization and pseudonymization: k-anonymity, l-diversity, t-closeness, differential privacy, data masking, generalization, suppression, and noise addition; EMA Policy 0070, ISO 25237, GDPR/HIPAA requirements; statistical disclosure risk assessment (re-identification risk metrics using prosecutor/marketer/journalist models, information loss metrics, equivalence class analysis; sdcMicro).
- Domain expertise: cardiovascular biology, neurophysiology, oncology, and molecular mechanisms
Data Science & Biostatistics:
- Biostatistics: hypothesis testing, power and sample-size calculation, survival analysis, mixed-effects and longitudinal models.
- Predictive and classification model development (regression, classification, machine learning).
- Epidemiological modeling: real-world data modeling, population estimates, risk assessment.
- Dimensionality reduction and clustering for high-dimensional biomedical data.
- Data visualization and interactive dashboards (R Shiny, Python).
- Synthetic data generation; utility and privacy evaluation of synthetic datasets.
- LLM/RAG implementation and optimization.
- Cloud services (AWS)
Software Development:
Software development, Git, CI/CD, agile development
Scientific Writing & Communication:
- Peer-reviewed publications in cardiology, neuroscience, and molecular biology (30+ publications).
- Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, and consensus manuscripts.
- Regulatory medical writing: Clinical Investigation Plans (CIP), Clinical Investigation Reports (CIR), interim reports, periodic safety reports, registry reports, and clinical study synopses.
- Conference summaries, meeting reports, and congress proceedings.
- Critical appraisal of biomedical manuscripts: novelty, methodology, and literature coverage
Bioinformatics:
- Multi-omics data integration and analysis: transcriptomics, proteomics, and Ribo-Seq.
- Genomics and NGS data processing and analysis in R.
- Systems biology and gene ontology analysis.