News
2026
8 October: I will serve on the PhD committee of Adrienne Tuynman at the University of Lille, France.
30 August - 2 September: I taught E-values and Multiple Testing at the CUSO Summer School 2026 in Anzère, Switzerland.
20 August: Our paper Carefree multiple testing with e-processes, with Yury Tavyrikov and Jelle Goeman, was published in the Electronic Journal of Statistics (paper).
6-9 July: I spoke at the IMS Annual Meeting 2026 in Salzburg.
29 June - 3 July: SAVI 2026 took place at the University of Twente; Wouter Koolen and I were the local organisers.
1 June: I spoke at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.
27-30 April: I visited KU Leuven for a research visit.
10 April: I spoke at Leve de Wiskunde!, a conference for Dutch math teachers in Amsterdam.
9 April: I was appointed as a member of the Round Table Mathematics.
7-8 April: I spoke at the BeNeLux Mathematical Congress in Antwerp.
16 February: Visiting PhD student Ivan Melev from LMU Munich joined our group for a couple of months.
February-April: I taught Medical Statistics (Medische Statistiek) to students in the Bachelor Gezondheidswetenschappen.
30 January: I was plenary speaker at A PhD, is that for me?, organised by KWG in Amsterdam.
1 January: I was appointed as Associate Editor of JRSS-B.
1 January: I was appointed as a member of the EMS Young Academy.
2025
November: I am invited to the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where I will talk about e-values and spend the rest of the week writing a book.
October: I talk at the World Statistics Congress in The Hague, and I will receive the 2025 Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award.
September 8: Welcome to my new PhD student Aurèle Mingam, funded by the NWO M2 grant and co-supervised with Jelle Goeman.
September 1: Welcome to my new PhD student Rovanos Tsafack Nzanguim, funded by the NWO M2 grant and co-supervised with Jelle Goeman.
September 1: The University of Twente promoted me to Associate Professor (Universitair Hoofddocent).
July 15-18: I visit the ISIPTA conference in Bielefeld.
July 11: I give a talk at the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics and Business
June 8: I give a tutorial on e-values at O'Bayes in Athens.
June 6: Our interdisciplinary paper with mathematician and theologian Evy Beijen has been published: link to the paper.
May 13: I'm invited to the Ruhr University Bochum for a research visit and giving a talk on e-values.
March 10: I talk in the Delft Seminar in Probability and Statistics.
March 1: we launched the website for the Kindness and Excellence initiative.
February 18: Jelle Goeman and I were awarded an NWO M2 grant of €742,708 for our project Flexible and user-adaptive statistical inference. The funds allow us to employ two PhD students, who will be co-supervised by both of us, and a scientific programmer. (UT news article; NWO announcement)
12 February: UToday wrote an article about our Kindness and Excellence in Academia initiative (news article UToday)
2024
December 16: I talk about e-processes and multiple testing at the 2024 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS) in Nice, France.
November 25: I talk about e-values with domain experts at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)
November 8: I organize e-Day, a meetup for Dutch e-value researchers.
November 1: Welcome to my new PhD student Fabian Damken!
October: Our paper about e-statistics, group invariance and any-time valid testing is published at the Annals of Statistics (PDF).
September: I started an initiative for Kindness and Excellence in academia. More will follow soon…
September: I wrote a column for NAW about my view on statistics as a field and where it should go: a paradigm shift (PDF).
Fall 2024: I teach an MSc course on Statistical Learning.
September 1: I start my new position at the University of Twente.
June 25: I give a talk at Zorginstituut Nederland about e-values, - I think this is my first e-value talk in Dutch!
June 25: I give a talk at the Epidemiology group of the LUMC (website) about e-values.
June 24: I give a talk at RIVM (Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu) about e-values.
May 5-9: I had a fantastic week with fellow e-value enthusiasts in Oberwolfach.
April 26: Together with Jelle Goeman we submitted a grant proposal (M2) to NWO.
Spring: There were several interviews with me in (national) newspapers and magazines: NAW (interview PDF), NRC (scan, NRC article), New Scientist (scan), and Ad Valvas (article, PDF copy).
February 12: An interview with me about e-values appeared in NRC: scan, NRC article - in the online version one of the main mistakes in the article is corrected; unfortunately I didn't get to proofread it
Spring 2024: I teach a new B.Sc. course for mathematics students about different topics in mathematical statistics.
February 1: I am back from maternity leave.
January 24: We presented our Safe Testing paper at the discussion meeting of the Royal Statistical Society in London. picture
2023
December: I was interviewed for NAW PDF
September-January: I was on maternity leave
November: Our XAI paper is published in JMLR: paper.
November 14: I served on the opposition for the PhD defence of Rosanne Turner at Leiden University
10 October: I was awarded the 2023 Cor Baayen Early Career Researcher Award (news article).
September 1: Welcome to my PhD student Yury Tavyrikov
4 August: I was awarded an NWO Veni grant (news article).
July 18: I co-organized and presented a workshop on hypothesis testing with e-values at MathPsych ICCM EMPG 2023 in Amsterdam (a conference on mathematical psychology)
July 11-14: I visited ISIPTA in Oviedo, Spain. With Julian Rodemann and Thomas Augustin we presented a poster combining two notions of Generalized Bayes.
May/June: I served on the reading committee for the PhD thesis of Rosanne Turner (Leiden University)
May: I became Associate Editor of Statistica Neerlandica
10 May: I spoke at the Seminar++ meeting of the Research Semester Programme Machine Learning Theory at CWI, Amsterdam
8 May: I spoke at the KdVI statistics seminar (University of Amsterdam)
1-3 May: I visited prof.dr. Thorsten Dickhaus at the University of Bremen and spoke at the Mathematisches Kolloquium
April: I was invited to speak about e-values at the Université Côte d'Azur in Nice. Due to the national strikes I had to cancel my trip, but gave the talk online.
April: I served on the PhD committee (as second reader) of Saeed Ghoorchian (University of Tübingen)
March: I was invited to speak at the Epistemology and Theory of Machine Learning Workshop at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
January: I visited prof.dr. Thomas Augustin at LMU in Munich
2022
December: I got tenure
November: I spoke at the CERN IML Machine Learning Working Group
September 24: I organized the Junior Math Olympiad (JWO) in the Netherlands
Autumn: Our paper Top Two Algorithms Revisited was accepted to NeurIPS 2022.
August 15-19: I visited the SIPTA Summer School
June 9-10: I spoke at the NWO AI and Mathematics Workshop in Amsterdam.
30 May - Jun 3: I spoke at the Safe, Anytime-Valid Inference Workshop at EURANDOM, Eindhoven.
20 May: I spoke about Bayesian best-arm identification in the research colloquium on decision making of the university of Tübingen.
17 March: I received the Willem R. van Zwet Award for my PhD thesis (news article, jury report).
March: I joined Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as an assistant professor.