Prof. dr. Niel HENS
View the content of this page
View the content of this page
Prof. dr. Niel HENS
Full professor
Prof. dr. Niel HENS
Research
Discipline codes: Biostatistics (03030201), Epidemiology (03030202), Infectious diseases (01060802)
Supervised PhDs
Modelling infectious disease surveillance data
Toon Braeye for the title Doctor of Sciences: Mathematics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Improving navigation in texts by typographic access structures in indexes linked to contemporary non-linear magazines with large-scale documentation. Searching through texts, images, grid systems and their relations by university students in the era of digitization.
Johanna Janssen for the title Doctor of Audiovisual and Visual Arts (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
A sensitivity-based multi-objective approach to assist decision-makers in the control of an emerging infectious disease
Leonardo Angeli for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Statistical modeling of federated data through sufficient statistics
Marie Analiz April Limpoco for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Computational Modeling and Simulation of Epidemic Infectious Diseases to Learn Mitigation and Data Collection Policies
Astrid Sierens for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Mental health and everyday life experiences in the time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: an analysis based on the Great Corona Study in Belgium
Zita Zsabokorszky for the title Doctor of Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Wastewater-based Epidemiology: leveraging sewage water to mitigate clinical data biases
Daniele Sartirano for the title Doctor of Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Mathematical Models of Infectious Disease Transmission: Integration to a Systems Thinking Approach
Roel Jude Bagaforo for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Advanced Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Censored Time-to-Event and Serial Seroprevalence Data
Miguel-Angel Beynaerts for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Assessing the risk of sustained mpox outbreaks in the Belgian MSM community and the potential effect of mitigation measures
Paulo Batidor for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Endemic-Epidemic Modeling: Bridging Routine Infectious Disease Surveillance and Non-Traditional Data
Thi Huyen Trang Nguyen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2025
Supervised as Copromotor
Statistical methods for monitoring antibiotic use, resistance and immunity markers
Helene Vermeulen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2025
Supervised as Promotor
Statistical methods for analyzing infectious diseases using social contact data
Neilshan Loedy for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2025
Supervised as Promotor
Behavior and infectious disease dynamics: applications using pandemic social contacts, Varicella-zoster virus transmission modeling with cost-effectiveness analysis, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus seasonality
James Wambua for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2024
Supervised as Promotor
Population dynamics and household structures in infectious disease modelling: A demographic perspective
Signe Moegelmose for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2023
Supervised as Promotor
Modelling concordance and correlation of HIV serostatus and viral load among couples in Mozambique
Adelino Jose C Juga for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2023
Supervised as Copromotor
Unraveling transmission characteristics of directly transmitted infections and informing public health policy using statistical and mathematical models
Cécile Kremer for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2023
Supervised as Promotor
More entities, more problems? Individual-based models for infectious disease transmission
Elise Kuylen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Information Technology in 2023
Supervised as Promotor
Statistical methods to estimate infectious disease parameters and individual heterogeneity
Adelino Martins for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2022
Supervised as Copromotor
On the sero-epidemiology of measles in Belgium: on immunogenicity and persistence of vaccination and immunity gaps
Julie Schenk for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2022
Supervised as Promotor
Moving forward: hepatitis C elimination within reach in Belgium.
Dana Busschots for the title Doctor of Biomedical Sciences in 2021
Supervised as Copromotor
Social contact behaviors and influential factors relevant to the transmission of respiratory diseases
Van Thang Hoang for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2021
Supervised as Promotor
Statistical perspectives on the analysis of disease outbreak data using mechanistic and phenomenological models
Tapiwa Ganyani for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2020
Supervised as Copromotor
“Mathematical and statistical models for estimating infectious disease parameters based on serological and social contact data”
Mai Phuong Thao Tran for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2020
Supervised as Promotor
Statistical methods for disease burden and cost-effectiveness studies, and diagnostic testing
Zoë Pieters for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2020
Supervised as Promotor
Estimating Infectious Disease Parameters for the Transmission of Malaria in Ugandan Children.
Levicatus Mugenyi for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2018
Supervised as Promotor
Statistical and mathematical methods to improve models of infectious disease transmission in and between human and animal populations.
Yimer Wasihun Kifle for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2017
Supervised as Promotor
Flexible statistical models with applications in reproductive health
Osvaldo Loquiha for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2017
Supervised as Copromotor
The interplay between illness, time use, mobility and social contact behaviour and its relevance for infectious disease transmission
Kim Van Kerckhove for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2017
Supervised as Promotor
Statistical and mathematical perspectives on present-day infectious disease epidemiology.
Eva Santermans for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2016
Supervised as Promotor
Statistical modeling strategies for monitoring antibiotic use and resistance
Robin Bruyndonckx for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2016
Supervised as Promotor
Health econometric studies into the determinants of antibiotic consumption & the cost-effectiveness of adult influenza and pneumococcal vaccination strategies
Adriaan Blommaert for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2016
Supervised as Promotor
Modeling the infectious agent transmission with social mixing data
Guillaume Béraud for the title Doctor of Sciences in 2015
Supervised as Promotor
Semi-Parametric Methods for Applications in Survey Data and Geostatistical Data
Yannick Vandendijck for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2015
Supervised as Copromotor
Statistical models for estimating heterogeneity in acquisition of infectious diseases and outbreak risk in highly vaccinated populations
Steven Abrams for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2015
Supervised as Promotor
Developing and optimizing stochastic individual-based infectious disease simulation models by parallel multicolore computing techniques
Lander Willem for the title Doctor of Sciences in 2015
Supervised as Promotor
Een kwantitatieve analyse van varicella-zoster virus infectie: van immunologie tot epidemiologie
Benson Ogunjimi for the title Doctor of Sciences in 2015
Supervised as Promotor
Mathematical and Statistical Models Applied to HIV and Hepatitis C Co-infection and to Nosocomial Infections
Amparo Yovanna Castro Sanchez for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2014
Supervised as Copromotor
On the estimation of key infectious disease parameters based on epidemic data
Amin Azmon for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2014
Supervised as Promotor
Statistical modelling strategies for public health research, with applications in the surveillance of antimicrobial consumption, the diagnosis of acute infections and the diagnosis of coronary heart disease
Girma Minalu Ayele for the title Doctor of Sciences: Statistics in 2012
Supervised as Copromotor
Models for incomplete and clustered data with applications in clinical trials and health economic studies
An Creemers for the title Doctor of Sciences: Mathematics in 2011
Supervised as Copromotor
Statistical and mathematical models to estimate the transmission of airborne infections from current status data
Nele Goeyvaerts for the title Doctor of Sciences: Mathematics in 2011
Supervised as Promotor
Projects
61 research projects have been found
How do international migration and internal mobility of migrants shape local populations? Developing a spatial microsimulation model of population dynamics with application in infectious disease modelling (DynaMIGs). (Research)
01/01/2025 - 31/12/2028
VacxSYS: An integrated systems thinking approach to enhance vaccination strategies (Research)
01/01/2024 - 31/12/2027
Efficient and rapidly SCAlable EU-wide evidence-driven Pandemic response plans through dynamic Epidemic data assimilation (Research)
01/01/2023 - 31/12/2026
Statistical modelling of federated data through sufficient statistics (Research)
16/09/2024 - 31/08/2026
BOF 2025 incentive funding: "Leveraging artificial intelligence for pandemic preparedness and response" (Research)
07/04/2025 - 31/12/2025
Developing and testing a protocol to abtain a contact matrix of people aged 50+ through a pilot study (Research)
01/05/2019 - 31/12/2025
SARS-coV2 variants Evaluation in pRegnancy and paeDIatrics cohorts (Research)
01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025
Statistical methods for analyzing infectious diseases using social contact data (Research)
01/07/2024 - 15/08/2025
Wastewater-based Epidemiology: leveraging sewage water to mitigate clinical data biases (Research)
19/12/2023 - 31/05/2025
Flanders Artificial Intelligence Research program (FAIR) – second cycle (Research)
01/07/2019 - 31/12/2024
Structural funding institutions: structural funding for the operation of the Institute CENSTAT / DATA SCIENCE (Research)
01/10/2012 - 31/12/2023
The development and application of flexible multivariate models for current status data and count data with applications to HIV serodiscordance among couples and abortion, perinatal and infant mortality in Mozambique. (Research)
01/07/2017 - 31/10/2023
Epidemic intelligence to minimize 2019-nCOV's public health, economic and social impact in Europe "EpiPose" (Research)
13/03/2020 - 12/04/2023
Third Party agreement between UHasselt and Cenaero concerning the EuroHPC project 'EuroNCC' (Research)
01/09/2020 - 31/12/2022
Structural funding institutions: project funding CENSTAT for fundamental research (Research)
01/10/2012 - 31/12/2022
The impact of demographic change on the spread of measles and RSV (Research)
01/09/2022 - 30/11/2022
Grant agreement between Hasselt University and Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V. (Research)
01/03/2021 - 31/07/2022
BOF 2022: Incentive funding: HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-07-02: Pandemic preparedness (Research)
17/02/2022 - 30/06/2022
ECODIS: Effects of co-infections on the emergence of an avian disease Mycoplasma gallisepticum. (Research)
16/06/2018 - 30/04/2022
ERC POC project: DEFOG: Data science tool for epidemic forecasting (Research)
01/10/2019 - 31/03/2022
Statistical methods to estimate infectious disease parameters and individual heterogeneity using multivariate serological data (Research)
01/07/2017 - 31/12/2021
Policy support for managing the COVID pandemic through artificial intelligence (Research)
01/11/2020 - 31/10/2021
Translational and Transdisciplinary research in Modelling Infectious Diseases (Research)
01/10/2016 - 30/09/2021
Testing & optimising a mobile app in Belgium for the prevention and management of COVID-19 infections (Research)
22/05/2020 - 31/05/2021
A framework for repetitive large-scale citizen science surveys to inform health policy quickly during different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (Research)
22/05/2020 - 21/05/2021
RESTORE: REalistic forecaSTing, cOntrol and pREparedness for coming COVID-19 waves (Research)
22/05/2020 - 21/05/2021
Hepatitis C virus direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment success and its impact on transmission dynamics in HIV/HCV co-infected MSM (Research)
01/01/2017 - 31/12/2020
New translational methods towards the estimation of age- and timedependent epidemiological parameters for pertussis resurgence in Belgium using serial seroprevalence and incidence data (Research)
01/01/2017 - 31/12/2020
SpiL : Spillover of Leptospira in island populations of the Channel Island fox. (Research)
01/10/2017 - 30/09/2020
Effects of co-infections on the emergence of an avian disease Mycoplasma gallisepticum (acronym: ECODIS) (Research)
01/05/2020 - 31/07/2020
Predicting the impact of targeted prevention strategies for HIV in men-having-sex-with-men (MSM) and sub-Saharan African migrants (SAM) (Research)
01/08/2018 - 31/08/2019
FWO travel credit for a long stay abroad at the Ithaca College 17/08/2018-16/02/2019 and Princeton University 17/02/2019-16/08/2019. (Research)
17/08/2018 - 16/08/2019
Network Statistics for Sexually Transmitted Infections Epidemiology (Research)
01/01/2014 - 31/12/2018
Combining phylodynamics and agent-based HIV transmission modelling to advance epidemiological methodology and evidencebased public health policies for HIV prevention and treatment (Research)
01/10/2015 - 30/09/2018
Effects of co-infections on the emergence of an avian disease Mycoplasma gallisepticum (acronym: ECODIS) (Research)
01/07/2018 - 15/08/2018
Simulation modelling using phylogenetic, epidemiological and demographic data to inform proactive control strategies for HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus outbreaks among vulnerable populations in Quebec and Belgium. (Research)
01/01/2016 - 31/12/2017
Quantifying the impact of school holidays and week-ends on the spread of influenza-like-illness: a multi-scale approach (Research)
01/01/2016 - 31/12/2017
Modeling the infectious agent transmission with social mixing data (Research)
01/01/2014 - 31/12/2017
FWO travel grant for a short stay abroad for the 9e Annual Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) during 17-21/07/2017 at Seattle USA (Research)
17/07/2017 - 21/07/2017
Modelling the impact of combining HIV prevention interventions on HIV incidence in fishing communities in Uganda (Research)
05/06/2017 - 09/07/2017
Advanced development, testing and application of the Simpact Cyan infividual-base simulation tool to model preferential mixing among ART patients and heritability of HIV set point viral load. (Research)
01/01/2014 - 31/12/2016
Enhancing observational study design of infectious disease surveys using mathematical modelling techniques. (Research)
01/05/2016 - 31/07/2016
Modelling epidemics using new statistical methodology based on network data and incomplete data methodology. (Research)
01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014
Data-driven modelling of the impact of early, wide-scale HIV treatment on HIV incidence in Southern Africa (Research)
01/01/2010 - 31/12/2013
Determination of target groups that should receive priority for seasonal influenza vaccination (Research)
15/01/2011 - 31/01/2012
Estimating vaccination coverage from trivariate serological data and incidence data. (Research)
11/04/2011 - 11/06/2011
Education
Involved in the following courses
Academic year 2025 - 2026
Academic year 2025 - 2026
Academic year 2024 - 2025
Academic year 2024 - 2025
Niel HENS
Are you Niel HENS? Log in to edit this page