Prospective students

Are you interested in doing your bachelor’s / master’s thesis project with me? Feel free to get in touch to discuss this possibility!

Before sending me a request for supervision, I would like to ask you to check out this document where I detail the type of information that I need to be able to assess your request and come up with a project that best fits your profile and our shared interests.

Supervised students

Ongoing supervisions

  • Daniel Gomon (2021-25; co-supervisors: Marta Fiocco and Hein Putter)
    PhD student in Statistics
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University

  • Ioannis Liolios (2024)
    MSc in Mathematics
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University

  • Jelle Hazenbosch (2023-24; external supervisor: Marjolijn Das)
    MSc in Statistics and Data Science
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University + Centrale Bureau voor de Statistiek

  • Astrid Stulemeijer (2023-24; external supervisor: Christian Steglich)
    MSc in Statistics and Data Science
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University + Department of Sociology, University of Groningen

Past supervisions

  • Eugenia Driusso (2023-24; internal supervisor: Alessandra Brazzale, co-supervisor: Ernst Wit)
    MSc in Statistical Science
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University + Department of Statistics, University of Padova
    Thesis title: Statistical modelling of time-stamped hypergraphs: a model-based clustering approach

  • Lana Broer (2023-24; external supervisor: Alessio Crippa)
    MSc in Statistics and Data Science
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University + Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute
    Thesis title: Investigating the prognostic value of prostate-specific antigen in metastatic prostate cancer: a joint modeling and landmark approach

  • Eva Rovan (2022-24; co-supervisor: Salvatore Battaglia)
    BSc in Wiskunde (Mathematics)
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University
    Thesis title: In the Shadows of History: A Competing Risks Analysis of Child Mortality in 19th Century Amsterdam

  • Sophie Retif (2022-23; internal supervisor: Francesca Ieva)
    MSc in Mathematical Engineering
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University + Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan
    Thesis title: Dynamic prediction of survival with many longitudinal predictors: an empirical evaluation

  • Henk van der Pol (2022-23)
    MSc in Mathematics
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University
    Project title: A comparison of methods for the selection of the tuning parameters in penalized regression.

  • Yibin Feng (2022)
    MSc in Statistics and Data Science
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University
    Thesis title: An empirical evaluation of methods for the prediction of survival with many longitudinally-measured predictors

  • Gergely Talyigas (2021; co-supervisor: Marta Fiocco)
    MSc in Statistics for the Life and Behavioural Sciences
    Mathematical Institute, Leiden University
    Thesis title: A systematic comparison of methods for the validation of binary classification models

  • Frank Lefeber (2017; co-supervisor: Ernst Wit)
    MSc in Education and Communication in Mathematics and Natural Sciences
    Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen
    Thesis title: Heterogeneity for the Stochastic Blockmodel and the Issue of Separation in Political Networks

  • Harmen Dijkstra (2016; co-supervisor: Ernst Wit)
    MSc in Mathematics
    Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen
    Thesis title: Generalized linear models for network analysis