In a world where our smartphones and wearables are gathering overwhelming amounts of data, how can we make use of them to better understand our health? This question is explored by our guest Dr. Mark Hoogendoorn, a professor of artificial intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. An expert on machine learning, Mark discusses how this analytical method can be used in healthcare and the challenges that come with all this data (e.g., noisiness, explainability). Given that more and more people are using smartphones and wearables to track their health data, quantifying themselves like never before, Mark’s expertise is tremendously important. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Stress is complex and multifaceted and we all experience it in our daily lives. In this podcast we talk to various experts about stress. We talk about the latest developments in stress research and approach stress from various angles: physiology, emotion, cognition, behaviour and context. Stress Navigation is part of the 10-year research project Stress in Action. Marcos Ross is a PhD candidate at Amsterdam UMC and interviews our guests in the English episodes.