Summary
Egge Van Der Poel is a data science strategist and healthcare researcher with a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics and over a decade translating complex data into actionable healthcare policy and practice. He works independently advising governments, start-ups and hospitals, teaches across universities, co-founded De Dataverbinders and chairs high-profile discussions on AI, complexity and innovation. His governance roles across multiple healthcare supervisory boards reflect a rare blend of technical depth, strategic oversight and public-mindedness. Trained as both a physicist and philosopher, he excels at building bridges between disciplines and stakeholders and is sought-after as a speaker for making Big Data both tangible and ethically grounded. Off-stage he applies the same curiosity and collaborative leadership to raising three young sons and volunteering in community education.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
VWO (Gymnasium), VWO (Gymnasium) at Citycollege St Franciscus
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Experimental Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Experimental Particle Physics at Universiteit van Amsterdam / University of Amsterdam
MSc, Physics, MSc, Physics at Delft University of Technology
BA, Philosophy, BA, Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dutch, English, French