Dr. Malin Overmars (1995) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI) group (PI Prof. Dr. Geert Jan Biessels) at the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht. She is affiliated with the national TAP-dementia consortium, funded by ZonMW.

She holds a BA in Communication and Information Sciences from the University of Groningen and an MSc in Data Science from Tilburg University. She obtained her PhD ("Big Data, Small Vessels") in 2024 with research on the reuse of routinely collected healthcare data to support personalized approaches to cardiovascular disease, showcasing methods such as machine learning, natural language processing, and network analysis.

Her current research focuses on advancing both disease understanding and diagnostics in VCI through data-driven methods. With a background bridging data science and communication, she is particularly committed to interdisciplinary collaboration and the translation of complex data into clinically meaningful insights.

Dr Overmars' research focuses on the reuse of routinely collected healthcare data, often spanning several decades, to improve our understanding of disease processes and support personalised diagnostics. She is particularly interested in how these existing data sources can be used more effectively to identify patterns and trajectories in complex conditions such as VCI.

Her work combines methods from machine learning, natural language processing and network analysis to extract clinically relevant insights from large, heterogeneous datasets. She is also interested in the methodological and practical challenges of integrating data-driven approaches into clinical research and practice, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and clear communication of complex findings.