Prof. Dr. Sofie De Broe PhD
responsible scientific coordination
Sofie De Broe is scientific coordinator of the Strategy and External Positioning unit at Sciensano. She also has a visiting chair at the University of Maastricht in Smart Statistics for Policy Design. Between 2015 and 2021 Sofie was head of methodology and scientific director of the Centre for Big Data statistics (CBDS) at Statistics Netherlands. CBDS was set up to innovate official statistics using big data sources and new methods in data science. She has a PhD in social statistics/reproductive health from the university of Southampton, UK. She previously taught at the universities of Southampton and Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and worked at the Office for National Statistics in Titchfield (UK) as a researcher.
