Dr. ir. Ilse Vermeulen is a Bio-engineer in Cell and Gene Biotechnology with a PhD in Medical Sciences from the Free University of Brussels (VUB), which she obtained in 2012. During her doctoral studies, Ilse focused on prediction models and epidemiological studies in the clinical biology of type I diabetes, which provided her with extensive experience in data processing and writing research articles for peer-reviewed journals.

For the past few years, Ilse has been working as a project manager at the University of Applied Sciences Leuven-Limburg (UCLL), where she was responsible for the respective focus lines "Environment & Health" and "Technology Enhanced Care".

In April 2022, Ilse joined the Research Group of Biomedical Data Sciences of Liesbet Peeters as a Staff Member and Project Manager to support the MS Data Alliance. Additionally, she leads the follow-up of other projects within the group, e.g. EBRAINS. Ilse is a vigorous creator, project enabler, and adept at transforming real-world data into real-world evidence.

Expertise:
Prediction models, stakeholder management, ...