About Us

Dr. Ester de Jonge

Dr. Ester de Jonge is a nutrition scientist and public health epidemiologist by background. She has conducted, supervised and managed research activities in a variety of settings, including the food industry, the academia and the local government. Currently, her focus is on ethical, legal and social aspects of collecting, processing and interpreting data in public health programs. She has a specific interest in the ‘data invisible’ population groups and the prevention of ‘data- driven discrimination’.

Dr. Hani Alers

Hani Al-Ers is a researcher in the field of human-machine interactions. He completed his PhD at the Delft University of Technology at the Interactive Intelligence group of the Faculty Computer Science (EEMCS). Philips Research in Eindhoven sponsored his project which was aimed at improving the user experience of Philips tv sets. He completed 2 post-docs at the Delft University of Technology, during which he managed international consortia on topics such as an improved quality of life for the elderly. Currently, he is conducting research in the field of health and education and he leads the Research Education activities at the Dutch Innovation Factory.

Dr. Mathis Mourey

I am a lecturer in Finance and Statistics at The Hague University of Applied Science and a researcher at the Data Science research group. In my doctoral dissertation, I used various statistical methods to improve our understanding and measures of financial crisis risk. It allowed me to learn a large spectrum of machine learning techniques and to gain specialised knowledge in time series analysis.

Tufail Abbasi

Tufail Abbasi is affiliated to The Hague University of Applied Sciences as a researcher and PhD candidate at the Faculty IT & Design. His field of research is Ethics in Artificial Intelligence. He is currently doing research in “AI-Enable citizen empowerment” research study aims to investigate the use of AI technology to empower and improve the quality of life of citizen. He has done MS in Information security with Gold Medal from Riphah International University, Pakistan. Areas of interest lies within domain of Data Governance and Management, Ethics and Risk Management.

Dr. Mark Vondenhoff

Mark Vondenhoff studied biology at Radboud University Nijmegen and has subsequently conducted fundamental biomedical research for many years. In particular in the field of the development of the immune system. Mark has a PhD in secondary lymphoid organ development and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher on immune cell development in human skin. He has been working at The Hague University of Applied Sciences since 2011, where he is senior lecturer in the Skin Therapy course.

Through his work in the Data Science and the Oncological care research groups, Mark Vondenhoff conducts research in the field of suspicious skin lesions. The research he is interested in is mainly in the field of risk signaling of underlying pathologies upon recognition of clinical predictors in patients with a skin problem.