Bastiaan A. Van Velthoven is a research and teaching assistant. His PhD research is delving into the statistical wonders of extremes in time series analysis. Besides that, Bastiaan is teaching the lab sessions of probability and statistics in the BSc of bioscience engineering.
Experience
Bastiaan held a short research position exploring the links between information and quantum theory before he joined our department. Currently, he is organizing the statistics discussion groups for BIOSTAT, monthly gatherings for statistical discussions and lectures.
Education
MSc in Physics and Astronomy
Great distinction, Ghent University (2020)
Publications
[6] Van Velthoven, B. and Luca, S. (2026). Tracking evolving environmental risk with Bayesian structural time series. Presented at the 27th International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT2026), Athens, Greece. Conference presentation. Aug. 2026.
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[5] Van Velthoven, B. and Luca, S. (2026). Tracking evolving environmental risk with Bayesian structural time series. Presented at the 7th International Conference on Advances in Extreme Value Analysis and Application to Natural Hazards (EVAN2026), Delft, the Netherlands. Poster presentation. Jul. 2026.
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[4] Van Velthoven, B. and Luca, S. (2026). Bayesian Structural Time Series Analysis of Temperature Extremes. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. Under review.
[3] Van Velthoven, B., D’Emic, M., Woodward, A., and Luca, S. (2026). Extreme value theory reveals the upper limit of terrestrial body size. iScience. Under review.
[2] D’Emic, M., Van Velthoven, B., Woodward, A., and Luca, S. (2026). Has the largest dinosaur already been discovered. Presented at the Northeast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium (NERVES), New York, USA. Conference presentation. Apr. 2026.
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[1] Aelbrecht, B. and Luca, S. (2024). Structural time series analysis for extremes - A parametric smoothing approach for analyzing extremes in a non-stationary environment. Presented at the 31st annual meeting of the Royal Statistical Society of Belgium, Gent, Belgium. Poster presentation. Nov. 2024.
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