Prof. Dr. Rens van de Schoot works part-time as a full professor of collaborative Methods in AI and Data Science at Utrecht University. He is the director of the AI-LAB on AI-aided Knowledge Discovery and coordinator of the open-source ASReview project (AI-aided Systematic text reviewing), which is used by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. He is also the founder of the official university Science Venture, the Forward Faster AI group, which supports partners in implementing AI techniques active in over 50 European consortia.

Short bio: I first studied Medical imaging techniques and worked for four years at the university hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands. After this, I started studying again, completed my Psychology bachelor with a minor in juvenile delinquency, and graduated cum laude for the research master Development and Socialization of Children and Adolescents. I obtained my PhD (also cum laude and awarded the APA-award for best dissertation of division 5) on applying Bayesian statistics to real-life data at the Department of Methods and Statistics. I have been awarded all three individual grants for excellence from the Dutch Research Council (NWO): a VENI for early career scientists (on Integrating background knowledge about traumatic stress experienced after trauma into statistical models assessing individual change over time), a VIDI to start a research group (on Experts, their prior knowledge, and the issue of limited data), and recently a VICI for continuing the development of ASReview.