Since August 2023, I am part of the Academic Skills and Student-Centered Education (AV-SO) expertise team. Within the team I work as an Academic Skills teacher and I supervise first-year students as a mentor. During my studies in Biomedical Sciences at the UvA, I became interested in the immune system. Therefore, I chose the Infection & Immunity track for my Master's in Biomedical Sciences.

During my master I investigated:

1) The influence of sex steroid hormones on the growth and virulence of Candida Albicans in vitro.

2) The role and localisation of Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILC) and Tissue Resident Memory T-cells (TRM) in Graft vs Host Disease (GvHD) affected colon and skin tissue.

Subsequently, I gained 8 months of experience as a PhD student at Sanquin, where I started to develop an antibody based therapy for leukemia patients.

The expertise-team Academic Skills and Student Centric Education (Dutch: Academische Vaardigheden en Studentgecentreerd Onderwijs) aims to collaborate with research institutes, teachers and course-coordinators to develop and provide high quality innovative, research-focused education.  

The team consists of experienced, motivated teachers with a scientific background in various fields within (medical) biology. 

We wish to contribute to student talent development using our expertise and passion for education.