Added Dries Heylen

Author: jandot

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     [w/ Katrien Verbert & Koen Brosens] With background in computer science and communication, Houda is interested in making software easy to use and understand. She believes in the importance of including end users in the design process and enjoys finding out their needs and translating them into functional requirements. She currently works under the main supervison of Katrien Verbert and Koenraad Brosens on the visual representation of social networks in the domain of art history.
     Houda has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, and a joint Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction from the ENAC and the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.
 
+- name: Dries Heylen
+  class: current
+  title: PhD student
+  email: [email protected]
+  image: photo_dries.jpeg
+  bio: |
+    [w/ Gokhan Ertaylan and Jef Hooyberghts] Dries obtained his master's degree in biomedical sciences at KU Leuven in 2020. During that degree, he became interested in the use of bioinformatics and data analyses in the context of precision medicine. This brought him towards a dissertation focusing on a systems biology approach for chronic diseases at VITO health. He is enrolled as a PhD student connected to the Data Science Institute in Hasselt and VITO, where he focuses on applying visual analytics and data visualisation approaches on high-dimensional medical data to gain insights into intermediate changes between health and disease.
+
 - name: Thomas Moerman
   class: alumnus
   title: PhD student