Rippe, Drs. R.C.A (Ralph)

Position:
  • PhD candidate


Personal Homepage: www.rippe-r.dds.nl


Academic career

  • PhD candidate at the Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University. The research project focuses on nonlinear modeling with high volume data set from systems biology (2006 - present).
  • PhD Representative IOPS 2008-2009 (2 full years).
  • Jury Member for best Student Thesis in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2008.
  • Jury Member for best Student Thesis in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2007.
  • Jury Member for best Student Thesis in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2006.
  • Alumni-representative Master track 'Methods and Statistics' for Educational Assessment 2006.
  • Master's thesis on restricted multiple correspondence analysis (HOMALS), supervised by prof. dr. W.J. Heiser and dr. C.M. van Putten (2006).
  • M.Sc. in Psychology, cum laude, at the Methods and Statistics division, Department of Psychology, Leiden University (2006).
  • Student Member in Master Track-committee 2005-2006.
  • Teaching assistant with prof. dr. A. Mooijaart (2006).
  • University education in Psychometrics and Research Methodology, at the Department of Psychology, Leiden University (2002-2006).

Research areas

  • Nonlinear Optimal Scaling methods (Wide Data Sets)
  • Systems Biology
  • Genotyping
  • Software Development
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis

Honours, awards, grants & funds

  • 2008: Invitation for KNAW symposium: Onzekerheid in Meten en Weten
  • 2008: Invitation for Graduate School seminar Networking: Do's and Don'ts
  • 2007: LUF travel fund
  • 2007: Invitation for KNAW Colloquia: Advising on Research Methods
  • 2006: Nomination Van de Geer-award for Best MSc Thesis 2005-2006, Dept. of Psychology

Teaching activities

  • Assistant coordinator Applied Multivariate Data Analysis (2006-2009)
  • Teacher SPSS sessions (2007-2009)

Publication

Rippe, R.C.A., Eilers, P.H.C., & Meulman, J.J. (2008). SNPScale. 

Presentations

  • Rippe, R.C.A., Eilers, P.H.C. and Meulman, J.J. (2009). Improving SNP genotyping by model-based data correction. IFCS, Dresden. March, 2009.
  • Rippe, R.C.A., Eilers, P.H.C. and Meulman, J.J. (2008). Models for fluorescence Signals on SNP Arrays. IWSM, Utrecht. July, 2008.
  • Rippe, R.C.A. (2007). Systematic modelling of large biological datasets. IOPS Winter Conference, Groningen, The Netherlands. December 12-13, 2007.
  • Rippe, R.C.A. (2007). Systematic modelling of DNA data: Predicting fluorescence intensities of SNP arrays. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Tokyo, Japan. July 12, 2007

Software

SCALA (2008). R programme for modelling SNP data.
SCALA Manual (2008). Manual for SCALA version 1.00.

Last Modified: 26-04-2011