Curriculum vitae
Currently working as PhD candicate at Leiden University on plastic degradation with microbes
Education
PhD candidate
Leiden University
Juli 2021 - ungoing
Plastic degradation with different organisms to establish an efficient cell factory for plastic degradation
Extra: Providing internships, lectures, practicals and courses to master and bachelor students.
Master: molecular genetics and biotechnology - Leiden University
Leiden University
September 2018-Juli 2021
Master specializing in microbiology.
average grade: 8
Internships:
- The development of an auxothroph selection system for E. coli and S. lividans.
- Fantastic Plastics and how to degrade them. Plastic degradation by Actinobacteria
Bachelor biology - Leiden University
September 2015 - August 2018
Specialized in molecular biology
average grade: 7.5
Internship: The effect of different promoters regulating Cas9 on the inheritance of mutations inserted in Arabidopsis thaliana through gene-targeting.
International programs
iGEM 2019
Science manager of the iGEM Leiden team. Working in an international team of students and travelling to different meetings in Europe to finally present our project in Boston USA.
SUSI - Leaders of Europe - Environmental Issues
Five week summer program at the University of Oregon organised by the US deparment of state focussed on the environmental challanges we face. The group was composed of 22 students from different European countries discussing the effects of the changing environment in the world. Finishing with a presentation in Washington DC.
Prices
Unilever research prize
November 2020
The Unilever research prize for the internship: Fantastic plastics and how to degrade them.
Best Manufacturing team
November 2019
The iGEM Leiden team won best manufacturing team in the Giant Jamborree