About me

I am a 1st year PhD student with Tim Coorens at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge (UK), where I will focus on computational analysis of single-cell and spatial mutational data to uncover human development and cancer origins. Our origins fascinate me, from the cell scale of how we develop up to evolutionary history, and I have found that bioinformatics is a fascinating domain to work on this. Prior to this, I studied Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in my home country of the Netherlands (BSc in Nijmegen, MSc in Amsterdam), and graduated with a MSc thesis with Oliver Steele (DKFZ, Heidelberg) and Omer Bayraktar (Wellcome Sanger, Cambridge). I then subsequently worked as a bioinformatician in Omer’s group. Here, I analysed large-scale single-cell spatial transcriptomics data from exciting novel technologies (e.g. Visium and Xenium) to study neurodevelopmental conditions, brain tumours and spinal cord injury.

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