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Skills & Languages

Python
R
SQL
Bash
MATLAB
LaTeX
HTML/CSS


Dutch (Native)
English (C2)
Norwegian (C2)
French (B1)
German (A2)

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Daniel Roelfs

Data Scientist working on anti-money laundering for DNB, Norway’s largest bank. Previously a biomedical researcher in Computational Psychiatry with a focus on neuroimaging and genetics

Work Experience

Data Scientist

Group AML

DNB

current - 2022

  • Data scientist in the Anti-Money Laundering Group at DNB
  • Creating machine learning models using Python, R, and AWS cloud services and putting models in production
  • Application of responsible data science practices in both development and deployment

Doctoral Research Fellow

Multimodal Imaging group at NORMENT

University of Oslo

2022 - 2019

  • PhD position on neuroimaging and genetics
  • Running a study from conception through writing the final manuscript
  • Writing scripts and pipelines in R, Python, and MATLAB

Research Assistant

EEG Group at NORMENT

University of Oslo

2019 - 2018

  • Managing EEG data, data preprocessing and analysis, training new EEG testers, performing EEG experiments
  • Maintaining and adapting preprocessing pipelines for EEG data

Research Assistant

Department of Medical Physics

Rikshospitalet, OUS

2019 - 2018

  • Data collection, managment, and processing in an MRI study on sleep deprivation
  • Preprocessing and analyzing the imaging data and preparing datasets for collaborators
  • Processing and analyzing of data from the video camera

Education

PhD, Doctoral Education

University of Oslo

Oslo, NO

2022 - 2019

  • Doctoral education at the Institute of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oslo
  • Courses relevant to neurobiology, advanced statistics, and other academic and non-academic skills

MSc, Biomedicine

Lund University

Lund, SE

2018 - 2016

  • Master’s program in Biomedicine at the Faculty of Medicine
  • Focus on molecular biology and neuroscience

BSc, Pre-medical track

University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University

Middelburg, NL

2015 - 2012

  • Major in the pre-medical science track, minor in philosophy
  • Liberal Arts & Science program
  • Honors College

Clinical Experience

Assistant nurse/phlebotomist

Gelre Hospital Apeldoorn

Apeldoorn, NL

2016

Awards

ECIP Oral Finalist

World Congress of Psychiatry Genetics

N/A

2021

  • Awarded to promising oral presentations from early-career researchers

International Training Grant

Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience

N/A

2019

  • Grant awarded to scientists to receive training abroad that’ll benefit their research in Norway

Sparbanken Skåne Master Prize

Sparbanksstiftelsen Färs & Frosta, Lund University

N/A

2019

  • Awarded to the best master theses in the field of neuroscience

Commissions

Committee Member

Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience

N/A

2021 - 2019

  • Organization of the national conference for neuroscience PhD candidates

General Board Member (Fundraising portfolio)

The Netherlands Red Cross Student Desk Zeeland

N/A

2015 - 2014

  • Coordination with regional and national Red Cross offices



Portfolio

I occasionally write blogposts that serve as tutorials or showcases for how I solve certain data science problems

Personal website/blog

danielroelfs.com

N/A

present - 2019

  • Includes tutorials on statistics (link, link) and data science (link, link, link)
  • Tutorials contain code written in R and Python, website is generated using Hugo and Quarto hosted through GitHub and Netlify

Talks & Presentations

danielroelfs.github.io/slides

N/A

present - 2019

  • Webpage where I collect all slides and files for talks, workshops, and presentations I’ve given since the start of my PhD
  • Among others slides for a number of conference presentations (link, link) and talk on the importance of design in science (link, link)

Bilkollektivet Trip Cost Calculator

danielroelfs.shinyapps.io/bilkollektivet

N/A

present - 2020

  • Interactive web app to quickly calculate and compare the cost of a trip with car-sharing service Bilkollektivet

Advent of Code

danielroelfs.github.io/advent-of-code

N/A

2021

  • Annual set of coding and programming challenges/puzzles in the form of an Advent calendar

Introduction To Basic Statistics in R

For internal purposes

N/A

2019

  • Gentle introduction to performing statistical analysis and plotting in R
  • Intended for NORMENT employees and other medical researchers

Selected Publications

Full list of articles on which I am a (co-)author is available on my ORCID or Google Scholar profile

Shared genetic architecture between mental health and the brain functional connectome in the UK Biobank

BMC Psychiatry

N/A

2023

Genetic overlap between multivariate measures of human functional brain connectivity and psychiatric disorders

medRxiv

N/A

2022

Phenotypically independent profiles relevant to mental health are genetically correlated

Translational Psychiatry

N/A

2021

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Last updated on 02-04-2024