Elfi Goesaert holds a doctoral degree in Psychology, doing research in the field of neuroscience on visual perception at KU Leuven (Belgium). After a couple of years as a postdoc looking at the organization of the visual cortex using machine learning techniques, she switched tracks and started at Domus Medica on out-of-hours care. In 2016, she became project manager ICT and eHealth, and worked on several federal and Flemish projects on eHealth and the digitization of healthcare (e.g. medication scheme, GDPR and secure communication in health, eHealth training for health care professionals,… ) , and became vice-chair of the Vitalink Consultation Committee in 2019. She co-managed the digitization of the Domus Medica Health Guide, and started collaborating on the BIBOPP project. In 2021, she joined the VITO Datascience Hub to further develop projects in personalized medicine and prevention. In 2022, she became the project lead in the Save Data Coock project, where VITO, imec and Medvia collaborate to set up use cases with industry on innovative building blocks in health data, and organize knowledge-sharing events and workshops. Within the new Competence Centre Data & Analytics at VITO, she works on EU data strategy and regulations, data spaces, and data governance and data management projects.