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Researcher
Niel Hens
- Research Expertise (University of Antwerp):The use and development of statistical and mathematical models of infectious disease transmission
- Keywords (University of Antwerp):INFECTIOUS DISEASES, MATHEMATICAL MODELING, BIOSTATISTICS, Mathematics
- Keywords (Hasselt University):Mathematics
- Disciplines (University of Antwerp):Applied mathematics in specific fields, Public health care, Public health sciences, Public health services, Statistics, Numerical methods
- Disciplines (Hasselt University):Infectious diseases, Biostatistics, Epidemiology
- Research techniques (University of Antwerp):Mathematical and statistical methodology
- Users of research expertise (University of Antwerp):Epidemiologists, statisticians, people working in public health, etc.
- See also: Niel HENS (Hasselt University)
Affiliations
- Data Science Institute (Research institute)
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From1 Jan 2022 → Today - Centre for Statistics (Research group)
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From1 Oct 2019 → Today - Data Science Institute (Research institute)
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From1 Jun 2019 → Today - Mathematics and statistics (Department)
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From1 Jan 2013 → Today - Faculty of Sciences (Faculty)
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From1 Oct 2009 → Today - Centre for Statistics (Research group)
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From16 Sep 1999 → Today - Social Epidemiology & Health Policy (SEHPO) (Research group)
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From1 Jan 2019 → Today - Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CHERMID) (Research group)
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From1 Jan 2019 → Today - Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO) (Research group)
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From1 Feb 2009 → 31 Dec 2018 - Applied Mathematics (Department)
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From1 Oct 2001 → 31 Dec 2012 - Research Institute Center for Statistics (Research institute)
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From16 Sep 1999 → 31 May 2019 - Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences (Faculty)
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From16 Sep 1999 → 30 Sep 2009 - Mathematics-Physics-Informatics (Division)
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From16 Sep 1999 → 30 Sep 2009
Projects
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See also Niel HENS for projects of Hasselt University.
Here below the projects of University of Antwerp.
- ANTICIPATE : Artificial Intelligence and Epidemic Modeling to Prepare Hospitals for the next Respiratory Pathogen with Pandemic Potential.From1 Oct 2025 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO)
- Identification of host or viral parameters that predict off-treatment outcomes in patients chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus by a combination of statistical modelling and bio-informatics approaches.From1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Modelling within-host immune responses with applications to the Ebola vaccine.From15 Jul 2023 → 14 Jul 2024Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Establishing innovative approaches for optimal infection prevention of resistant bacteria in NICUs by integrating research, implementation science and surveillance in a sustainable global platform (NeoIPC).From1 Apr 2021 → TodayFunding: H2020-EU.3.1. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and wellbeing
- VAXINFECTIO-PD _ VAXINFECTIO: Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute _ PD: Product Development.From1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: IOF - mandates
- Statistical methods for the estimation of age- and time-dependent epidemiological malaria parameters and the analysis of social network data as a novel approach to design malaria elimination strategies.From1 Oct 2020 → 30 Sep 2024Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Preventing Resistance in Gonorrhoea (PReGo) Study.From1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: FWO Applied Biomedical Research (TBM)
- Neuronal self-renewal by antigen-specific tolerization in multiple sclerosis reinstalling the balance between inflammation and regeneration (RESTORE).From1 Jan 2018 → 30 Jun 2023Funding: H2020-EU.3.1. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and wellbeing
- Respiratory Syncytial virus consortium in Europe (RESCEU).From1 Jan 2017 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: H2020-EU.3.1. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and wellbeing
- Translational and Transdisciplinary research in Modeling Infectious Diseases (TransMID).From1 Oct 2016 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: BOF - Other initiatives, H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC), Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
1 - 10 of 344
See also Niel HENS for publications of Hasselt University.
Here below the publications of University of Antwerp.
- An extension of the Benefit Risk Assessment of VaccinEs toolkit to evaluate Comirnaty and Spikevax vaccination in the European Union(2025)Published in: European journal of public healthISSN: 1101-1262Volume: 35Pages: 1007 - 1013
- Federated mixed effects logistic regression based on one-time shared summary statistics(2025)Published in: Biometrische ZeitschriftISSN: 0323-3847Volume: 67Pages: 1 - 20
- A Bayesian mixture model accounting for individual heterogeneity in response to pathogenic infection(2025)Published in: South African statistical journalISSN: 0038-271XVolume: 59Pages: 37 - 58
- Linear mixed modeling of federated data when only the mean, covariance, and sample size are available(2025)Published in: Statistics in medicineISSN: 0277-6715Volume: 44Pages: 1 - 13
- Nonparametric serial interval estimation with uniform mixtures(2025)Published in: PLoS computational biologyISSN: 1553-734XVolume: 21Pages: 1 - 21
- Optimizing influenza vaccine allocation by age using cost-effectiveness analysis: a comparison of 6720 vaccination program scenarios in children and adults in Belgium(2025)Published in: EpidemicsISSN: 1755-4365Volume: 51Pages: 1 - 9
- Assessing the role of children in the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium using perturbation analysis(2025)Published in: Nature communicationsISSN: 2041-1723Volume: 16Pages: 1 - 14
- On the Addams family of discrete frailty distributions for modeling multivariate case I interval-censored data(2025)Published in: BiostatisticsISSN: 1465-4644Volume: 26Pages: 1 - 16
- Understanding the influence of host radiation on symbiont speciation through parasites of species flocks(2025)Published in: Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in BiologyISSN: 1943-0264Volume: 17Pages: 1 - 18
- Bayesian nowcasting with Laplacian-P-splines(2025)Published in: Journal of computational and graphical statisticsISSN: 1061-8600Volume: 34Pages: 718 - 728
Linked dataset
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See also Niel HENS for datasets of Hasselt University.
Here below the datasets of University of Antwerp.
- EPICURUS: Social contact data - Social mixing patterns focusing on older individuals
- Seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against SARS coronavirus 2 in Belgium – a serial prospective cross-sectional nationwide study of residual samples
- CoMix social contact data (Belgium )
- CoMix social contact data (Belgium )
- POLYMOD social contact data
- Data from: Early detection of chronic hepatitis B and risk factor assessment in Turkish migrants, Middle Limburg, Belgium.
- Social contact data for Belgium (2006)
- Social contact data for Vietnam
- Peruvian social contact data