Rick Mourits

Researcher and Data Engineer at the IISH

Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands

About

I am an experienced data analyst and data engineer of (historical) demographic data. My specialty is to convert complex data questions into into simple and effective pipelines and research designs. I have experience with large datasets, data cleaning, and data quality control, as well as regression analyses, cox regression modelling, spatial analyses, and visualization of data. For data analyses I use R, but I am also versed in SPSS, STATA, and ArcGIS. My academic interests are research methodology, (historical) demography, social stratification, migration, and longevity.

Experience

  • Data and Collections Engineer at IISG
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • Postdoctoral Researcher & Data Engineer at Radboud
    Jan 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Utrecht University
    Mar 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Reconstructing the Dutch population between 1812 and 1967 using the Dutch civil registry.

  • Data Analyst at Radboud University Nijmegen
    Mar 2019 - Mar 2019 · 1 mo

    Assists with digitizing the Surinamese slave registers (data cleaning, etc.)

  • PhD Student - economic, social and demographic history at Radboud University
    Sep 2014 - Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    Four-year-long research project into "The role of the family and the disease environment in exceptional longevity in three provinces of the Netherlands, 1812-1957" at the department of history in Nijmegen. Part of the research project "Genes, germs and resources".