{"id":8,"date":"2018-03-30T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:01:42","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcel Haas: astrophysicist turned data scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-189 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/marcel-valencia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/marcel-valencia.jpg 604w, https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/marcel-valencia-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/marcel-valencia-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome! I am a passionate data scientist, working as an assistant professor of data science in population health at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lumc.nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leiden University Medical Center<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lumc.nl\/over-het-lumc\/maatschappelijke-rol\/lumc-campus-den-haag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Campus in The Hague<\/a>. I was once an astrophysicist (the term extronomer was invented here!), have been a data scientist in industry for a decade and have always has been a geek.<\/p>\n<p>If you are here for my blog: <b><a href=\"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/datascience\/\">Data, Science &amp; More<\/a><\/b>, you are just one click away!<\/p>\n<p>In the menu, you can also find links to my social media accounts, a description of the astrophysical <a href=\"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/astrophysics\/\">science<\/a> I did in my previous life, a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/publications\/\">scientific publications<\/a> and my <a href=\"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CV_MarcelHaas.pdf\">CV<\/a> (likely outdated, if you want to be sure to have the latest and greatest version, contact me!).<\/p>\n\n\n<p>My beer alter-ego has another blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/tasteofcraftbeer.wordpress.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/tasteofcraftbeer.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tasting Craft Beer<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/craftbeer.marcelhaas.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/craftbeer.marcelhaas.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! I am a passionate data scientist, working as an assistant professor of data science in population health at the Leiden University Medical Center at the Health Campus in The Hague. I was once an astrophysicist (the term extronomer was invented here!), have been a data scientist in industry for a decade and have always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marcel Haas: astrophysicist turned data scientist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelhaas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}