Egge van der Poel is working as a Clinical Data Scientist at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. He holds a BA in Philosophy and a PhD in Elementary Particle Physics. He searched for (and found) the Higgs particle at the Large Hadron Collider of CERN, in Geneva. After his PhD at CERN he trained to be a Medical Physicist and was a Big Data consultant at KPMG before his job at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam.