Data Scientist MINDSETS

Chang is a PhD Student at the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) and Anna-Lena is in her 3rd year of the Bachelor Global Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASoS).
This time Chang and Anna-Lena co-host the episode and together they reflect on challenges, favorite moments and the biggest learnings that they had during this first year of the podcast.
At the end they share advice for anyone who thinks about starting their own podcast in the future.
A big thank you from the DSMINDSETS Team for supporting our podcast this past year! Also  special thanks to our partner: UM Inner City Library Makerspace for providing facilities  and equipment for recording.

Enjoy your holidays!
Anna-Lena :)



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Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
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Welcome to a new episode of the DSMINDSETS podcast!
This time we invited Dr. Constance Sommerey and Dr. Darian Meacham. Constance is Director of the Diversity and Inclusivity Office of Maastricht University (UM) and Darian currently is Associate Professor of Philosophyhere at UM.
They have a very engaging conversation about what 'wokeness' means for society, companies and academia and they also talk about the question whether 'wokeness' can even threaten the academic freedom?
This episode is very philosophical compared to previous talks, so definitely let us know what you think about it and which other topics you would like us to cover with Constance and Darian in the future. Just send us a direct message on Instagram, we are looking forward to hear from you.


Chang Sun on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chang-sun-maastricht/
Dr. Darian Meacham on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darian-meacham-80992012/
Dr. Constance Sommerey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/constance-sommerey-ab515061/

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This project is financially funded by UM Diversity & Inclusivity Grant 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclusivity/your-di-vision-um

Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
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Elisabeth (Lisa) Brüggen is Professor in Financial Services (SBE) and Scientific Lead at Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS). Elisabeth’s research interest is in Financial services with a focus on pension communications. In this episode she shares how she also integrated this topic in courses taught to students and how creatively they solved the problems given to them. Overall, she brings her academic research to practice and shares her findings with policy makers, general public, and other stakeholders. Lisa also  works on interesting projects at BISS about which she tells host Chang Sun in this episode.
Then link to BISS and also to Lisa's profiles are included in this episode description.

Lisa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisabeth-lisa-brüggen-2247392/
Chang on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chang-sun-maastricht/
Episode edited by: Anna-Lena Arlt

Here is the link to  BISS: Brightlands Institute for Smart Society
BISS on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bissinstitute/

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This project is financially funded by UM Diversity & Inclusivity Grant 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclusivity/your-di-vision-um

Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
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In this episode, Chang Sun invited Dr. Martina Summer-Kutmon who works as an Assistant professor at the Department of Bioinformatics (BiGCaT) and the Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio).
Martina shares her career journey and how she could combine her interest for the human body with her passion for mathematics and also technology.
Furthermore, her research focuses on network and pathway-based integrative systems biology to study the interaction between immune and metabolic systems. With Birgit Wouters and Tiffany Leung, Martina coordinated the Amrapali Zaveri Awards for Data Science which recognizes scholars for their special contributions to Data Science in honor of Amrapali.

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This project is financially funded by UM Diversity & Inclusivity Grant 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclusivity/your-di-vision-um

Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week, we invited Dr. Ana Vaniqui who works as a Physicist in the research domain of Clinical Radiotherapy at Maastro Clinic.  Anna-Lena is the host of this episode and together, the two talk about Ana's academic journey and how she came to Radiotherapy and innovation physics. Ana tells a lot about how she uses several Data Science and Artificial Intelligence techniques to optimize treatment plans for patients, together with her team.
At the end, she also talks about an interesting research project that she worked on and shares some advice for students who are also interested in the field of clinical physics and radiotherapy.


LinkedIn Profiles:
Ana Vaniqui: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-vaniqui-7b347445/
Anna-Lena Arlt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-lena-arlt/ 

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Special thanks to our partner: UM Inner City Library Makerspace for providing facilities for recording.

This project is financially funded by UM Diversity & Inclusivity Grant 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclusivity/your-di-vision-um

Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The reason for this special episode about the Women in Data Science (WiDS) event 2022 is that our host Chang Sun is also one of the WiDS Ambassadors who organized the regional event WiDS Datathon Maastricht 2022. Co-host of this episode is Anna-Lena Arlt who is the student assistant for this podcast but also participated in the Datathon. We invited her team members Sophia Longwe and Marisol Martin to join our podcast this week. All three are in their second year of the interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science 'Global Studies' at UM. Together the three participants reflect on their motivations to join the event in the first place, their team spirit during the Datathon but also their take-aways. Furthermore, the three Global Studies Students also talk about the changes they want to make using data science and the importance of the field of data science in general. Female empowerment is also being discussed in this episode as it is important for the three students to see someone who is similar to them, for instance in a board of recruiters.

Until the 6th of March you can register and join the WiDS Conference 2022 online: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/wids-maastricht-conference-2022
The Conference takes place on the 8th of March 2022 and is open to all members of society. You can find more information such as the exact program or related events on the linked website. We are looking forward to see many of you (virtually) there!

LinkedIn Profiles:
Sophia Longwe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophia-longwe-288207203/
Marisol Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisol-martin-3b7881205/
Anna-Lena Arlt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-lena-arlt/ 

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This project is financially funded by UM Diversity & Inclusivity Grant 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclusivity/your-di-vision-um

Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome back to this new episode!
This week, our host Chang Sun invited Pedro Hernandez who has been working as a Data Scientist. For many years he implemented data products in different research fields such as Climate Change, Law Enforcement, Psychology, Migration, and Policy Analysis. Recently, he has been appointed as a Data Steward at the Maastricht University Library.
During their conversation, Pedro explains how he came to be a data steward and what his tasks in this position look like.
He also has been involved in many multidisciplinary collaborations. For example, he was one of the developers of the Legal Data Infrastructure for Law & Policy scholars at the Law&Tech Lab. Therefore, Pedro stressed the importance of FAIR  (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).

Full biography of Pedro Hernandez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrohserrano/?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAYPc8wBMyRr1phec77z8Y26WCCsSw4zxGA 

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This project is financially funded by UM Diversity & Inclusivity Grant 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclusivity/your-di-vision-um

Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

In this week's episode our host Dr. Tiffany Leung had an amazing conversation with Dr. Jamiu Busari who sees himself as an advocate for diversity, equity and inclusivity. First, Jamiu talked about his definitions of power and privilege and especially how certain events and experiences from his life course impacted them.  He also gave great advice on how to advocate for a just system, saying "We must act with compassion but also not be judgmental or righteous about it. We should strive to build just systems where all people feel included, have equitable access to resources, and have a sense of belonging regardless of race, creed, religion, age, ability or sexual orientation."

In the further course of the conversation, Jamiu talked about six ways to be an ally and stressed the importance of continuously engaging in critically conscious conversations.
One of the main take-home points that Dr. Busari mentioned in this episode is also to recognize one's own power and privilege and the intersectionality of being privileged in one way but not in another.


Dr. Busari mentioned numerous interesting references during this conversation. You can find all links to them on our website!

Full biography of Dr. Jamiu Busari: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/jamiubusari 

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This project is financially funded by UM Diversity & Inclusivity Grant 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclusivity/your-di-vision-um

Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

We start into 2022 with a new episode of our DSMINDSETS Podcast!
This week, we got very interesting input from Morsal Yusoufzai. As an UM Research Assistant, she looks at the connection between boredom, aggression and self harm.
She talks about how she can objectively measure emotions like aggression using Data Science.   Also, Morsal talks to host Chang Sun about how her findings can be replicated and the ways she collects data in the first place.
In the episode, Morsal also shares some experiences about growing up and being a student in The Netherlands, having an Afghan background.
Furthermore, Morsal is a member of the UM Unlimited Network community (UnliMited is a network dedicated to, for and by students and staff with visible and/or invisible disabilities). Being diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a mental health condition that can cause unusual levels of hyperactivity and impulsive behavior) herself after finishing university, Morsal experienced "being different" in different ways, though she always tries to look at the bright side.

Full biography of Morsal Yusoufzai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morsal-yusoufzai-879b41176/

UnliMited Network: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclusivity/di-organisations/unlimited-network
For this episode, a transcript is also available here on buzzsprout.

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This project is financially funded by UM Diversity & Inclusivity Grant 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclusivity/your-di-vision-um

Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Trigger Warning: This conversation contains content about eating disorders.

In this new DSMINDSETS podcast episode we invited Dr. Jessica Alleva who is a Canadian body image researcher, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience and also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Appearance Research in the United Kingdom.
Together with our host Dr. Anna Schueth (FPN), Jessica passionately talked about recent research projects and her mission to improve the way people think and feel about their own body. In this conversation, Jessica also shared a lot of personal experiences and explains how these shaped her career trajectory until this day and how being a mother has impacted her work.
She also talks with Anna about how she collects data for her research and  what type of data she uses to examine the phenomena of body image among a diverse group of people.


Full biography of Jessica Alleva: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-alleva-03380754/?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAuCj2cBTwU3PBk8c6gJzEjuVwicReAc6A0

Jessica's Column in the Observant: https://www.observantonline.nl/english/Home/Articles/id/43235/woman-on-a-mission

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This project is financially funded by UM Diversity & Inclusivity Grant 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclusivity/your-di-vision-um

Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license