Jozef Aerts
Owner at XML4Pharma
Tarrenz, Tyrol, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolJozef Aerts is an experienced owner and software developer who blends a PhD-level chemistry background with nine years of focused IT work in clinical research, pharmaceutical, and healthcare integration. He founded XML4Pharma to deliver XML and CDISC implementations, and has deep technical expertise in standards like ODM, SDTM, HL7 (including FHIR), and IHE profiles to bridge electronic health records with clinical trials. His career includes academic leadership as a professorship in medical informatics and prior roles heading scientific software teams at Organon and AkzoNobel, showing a rare mix of research, management, and hands-on coding across C++, PHP and Perl. Known for developing and implementing interoperability standards, he combines domain knowledge of pharma data with practical tooling that enables regulatory-compliant data flows. Based in Tarrenz, Tyrol, he brings entrepreneurial independence and a long track record of translating complex clinical and scientific requirements into robust, standards-driven software solutions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Chemistry, Ph.D., Chemistry at University of LeuvenBelgium, Science, Belgium, Science at Jan van Ruusbroeck college
Github Skills (15)
rule-engine9
business-rules9
json8
odm8
syntax-highlighting5
swing4
code-folding4
test-data3
regression-testing3
code-editor3
java3
text-editor2
cql2
javascript-framework1
postgresql1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cdisc-org/DataExchange-DatasetJson
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Dataset-JSON tabular data exchange standard
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 9 months
data-exchange-standardjsondatasetodm
JozefAerts/OpenRules4CRStandards
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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