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Marleen Balvert is an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University's Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), Department of Econometrics and Operations Research. Her research focuses on applying optimization and machine learning to address challenges in the medical and humanitarian sectors. She leads projects such as the Zero Hunger Lab, developing tools to improve food security operations, and collaborates with institutions like the World Food Program and Erasmus Medical Center. Her work includes creating the ARAN dataset for child health monitoring and optimizing radiotherapy workflows in healthcare.
Key research interests include genomics data analysis for disease identification, resilient food systems, and interpretable machine learning methods. She teaches courses on operations research and machine learning at TiSEM. Balvert has been awarded the NWO Veni Grant and actively contributes to interdisciplinary projects bridging academia and real-world applications.
Her recent publications emphasize data-driven solutions in healthcare and humanitarian logistics, with collaborations spanning bioinformatics, medical research, and global hunger initiatives.
