Vincent Van Hees
Lead Biotech Software Engineer at SE4BIO - Software Engineering for Biotech
Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVincent Van Hees is an independent consultant and founder with 11 years of experience building and maintaining research-grade software for wearable movement and sleep data. He created and still actively maintains GGIR, an influential open-source R package used globally in large cohorts such as UK Biobank and Pelotas, and has processed multi-terabyte datasets (27 TB) for national studies. His work blends epidemiology (PhD, Cambridge) and software engineering to deliver scalable, validated pipelines and user-friendly tools like HabitusGUI and hbGPS/hbGIS that dramatically improved performance and usability. He has led quality assurance and cluster-scale deployments for national cohorts, secured external funding for research software projects, and taught an online GGIR training course. Vincent’s uncommon pairing of deep domain knowledge and hands-on code modernization (e.g., extracting C++ into GGIRread) lets him turn legacy research code into sustainable, high-performance tools. Based in the Netherlands, he specialises in turning complex sensor data into reproducible, publishable insights for academic and industry partners.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Human Movement Sciences, Master of Science - MSc, Human Movement Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)PhD, Epidemiology, PhD, Epidemiology at University of CambridgeBachelor of Engineering - BE, Human Kinetic Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Human Kinetic Technology at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (111)
deep-learning10
accelerometer10
r10
google-groups10
activity-tracker10
r-package10
classification10
gitbook10
activity-recognition10
time-series10
webinar10
rshiny10
data-files9
sensor9
sql9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
wadpac/patientReportGGIR
Apr 2024 - Aug 2025
Functions to generate patient-oriented reports from GGIR output
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 4 months
wadpac/whitehall-acc-spt-detection-eval
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:40 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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