Ruud Visser

Ruud Visser currently serves as a Senior Data Scientist at PostNL since January 2021. Prior experience includes working as a Data Scientist at Sam Media from March 2018 to December 2020 and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the European Southern Observatory from September 2014 to September 2017, focusing on chemistry in variable young stars and nitrogen isotopes in disks around young stars. Additional contributions include involvement in the European node of the ALMA telescope in Chile, emphasizing processing and quality assessment of observations. Visser's academic background includes a postdoctoral position at the University of Michigan (January 2011 - August 2014) with a focus on the Herschel space telescope and a postdoc role at Leiden University (September 2005 - December 2010). Education comprises a PhD in Astronomy from Leiden University and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Chemistry from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specializing in computational chemistry.