Researcher/Postdoc
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Biography
Malin Overmars, PhD is a postdoctoral researcher in the Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI) group (PI: Prof. Geert Jan Biessels) within the Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht. She holds a BA in Communication and Information Sciences (University of Groningen) and an MSc in Data Science (Tilburg University). In 2024 she completed her PhD, Big Data, Small Vessels, which presented case studies showing how pattern-recognition methods applied to large biomedical datasets—including routine care data and proteomics—can help characterize and subtype cardiovascular disease.
Her current work focuses on vascular cognitive impairment, developing interpretable, data-driven approaches for personalized diagnostics and patient subtyping by integrating MRI, blood-based biomarkers, and routine clinical data. Methodologically, she works with Bayesian networks, machine learning, natural language processing, and clustering.
She is part of the national consortia TAP-Dementia (ZonMW) and Heart–Brain Connection (Dutch Heart Foundation) and contributes to open, reproducible research by sharing code and workflows on GitHub. She also publishes accessible blogs about her research for a broader audience on Substack.
