Tom Nik Verhelst

Dr Tom Verhelst is the program director at Griffith University’s Regional Innovation Data Lab (RIDL). In this role he works identify and fast-track innovative solutions that address long-standing urban and regional challenges by using “place”, rather than discipline or agency, as the data linking framework.

Tom has global industry R&D experience in applying novel platform technologies towards scientific advancement to generate beneficial socioeconomic impacts. He worked previously as the associate director of R&D IT at UCB Biopharma in Belgium and in the UK and as a program lead and consultant for PerkinElmer in Europe, the Middle East, North America and India.