Pol Van Rijn
Data Scientist
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolPol Van Rijn is a data scientist at Deutsche Bundesbank with nine years of experience bridging rigorous research and production-ready tooling to advance firm-level economic analysis. He specializes in record linkage, software development for automated workflows, and extracting structure from unstructured text—exploring how LLMs can enhance central banking research. His background spans a summa cum laude doctorate in computer science at the Max Planck Society, postdoctoral work in computational auditory perception, and applied research in speech, music and linguistics. Comfortable moving between code, statistics and domain-savvy data curation, he builds reproducible pipelines that make sensitive microdata usable for policy-relevant insights. Colleagues describe him as methodical yet experimental—combining academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to push analytical boundaries in a regulated data environment.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education (M.Ed.), German and Dutch language and literature studies and computer science, Sehr gut (Excellent, 1.2), Master of Education (M.Ed.), German and Dutch language and literature studies and computer science, Sehr gut (Excellent, 1.2) at Carl von Ossietzky Universität OldenburgDoctor's Degree, Computer Science, Summa cum laude, Doctor's Degree, Computer Science, Summa cum laude at Max Planck SocietyVWO-diploma (Abitur examination), VWO-diploma (Abitur examination) at H.N. Werkman College
Dutch, German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
science10
automation9
rcppeigen8
python8
palette8
r-package8
psychtoolbox7
phonetics7
statistical-models7
mixed-models7
multilevel7
color-palette7
stan7
syntax6
giphy6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
polvanrijn/polvanrijn.github.io
Mar 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
polvanrijn/nobelprize-scraper
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
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