CV
Education
- BSc with distinction: cum laude, awarded by University College Utrecht, an honours college of Utrecht University in 2018.
Science major, completed Cognitive Neuroscience, Chemistry, Molecular Cell Biology, and Medicine tracks. Gained the ‘Pre-Med’ qualification recognised by research medical doctor master programmes in the Netherlands.
- MSc with distinction: cum laude, awarded by the Molecular Biosciences programme at Heidelberg University in 2021.
Focused in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
- PhD degree in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology awarded by PSL University, with the speciality in Informatics (Informatique), the 4th of June, 2025.
Project focused on the development and application of image-processing workflows for characterising membrane morphologies and resolving membrane protein molecular structures from cryo-electron tomography data.
Funded by the EuReCa international PhD programme supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellow.
Member of l’école doctorale Complexité du Vivant, Sorbonne University.
Research experience
- 11 2025 - 10 2027: Postdoc
- INRIA Centre Rennes, a site of Inria, the French National Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.
- Development of image processing methods for information cross-reference between light microscopy and cryo-electron tomography.
- Hosted and supervised by Dr. Charles Kervrann who leads the Space-time imaging, artificial intelligence and computing for cellular and chemical biology (SAIRPICO) team
- 09 2021 - 08 2025: PhD project
- The Physical Chemistry Curie Lab (UMR168), Institut Curie
- The development and application of image-processing workflows for characterising membrane morphologies and resolving membrane protein molecular structures from cryo-electron tomography data.
- Thesis title: Automated Image Processing of Membranes and Membrane Proteins in Cryo-Electron Tomography
- Speciality: Informatics
- Hosted by the Molecular Microscopy of Membranes team led by Dr. Daniel Lévy
- Supervised by Dr. Daniel Lévy & Dr. Manuela Dezi
- Thesis committee members: Prof. Simon Anders, Dr. Mickael Cohen, & Dr. Slavica Jonic
- Jury members: Prof. José María Carazo & Dr. Irina Gutsche as reviewers, Dr. Charles Kervrann as president of the jury/the representative examiner of PSL University, Prof. Daniel Castaño Díez & Dr. Emmanuelle Quemin as external examiners.
- 03 2020 - 08 2021: Master thesis
- The Structural and Computational Biology unit, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg
- The development of an image processing pipeline for resolving structures of the Mumps viral capsid in the cellular context by means of in situ cryo-electron tomography.
- Hosted by the Mahamid group led by Dr. Julia Mahamid
- Supervised by Dr. Xiaojie Zhang & Dr. Julia Mahamid
- Examiners: Prof. Rebecca Wade & Prof. Georg Stoecklin
- Publication: Molecular mechanisms of stress-induced reactivation in mumps virus condensates.
- 01 - 02 2020: Internship
- Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
- Evaluation, improvement and benchmarking of the novel drug-target residence time (τ) estimating molecular dynamics sampling computational method: τ-random acceleration molecular dynamics (τRAMD), used for the ranking of drug candidates according to their τ and gaining insights into ligand-target dissociation mechanisms.
- Hosted by the Molecular and Cellular Modelling group led by Prof. Rebecca Wade
- Supervised by Dr. Daria Kokh
- Publication: A workflow for exploring ligand dissociation from a macromolecule: Efficient random acceleration molecular dynamics simulation and interaction fingerprint analysis of ligand trajectories.
- 09 - 12 2019: Internship
- Centre for Molecular Biology Heidelberg (ZMBH)
- Single-cell transcriptomics-based study of the interaction between Sertoli cell and cells of spermatogenesis in the fast-evolving testis across human and animal species. Mentored by Dr. Simon Anders on the development of a novel method for continuous classification of single cells.
- Hosted by the Kaessmann group led by Prof. Henrik Kaessmann
- Supervised by Dr. Florent Murat
- 04 - 08 2019: Internship
- German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ)
- Electron spray ionisation mass spectrometry-based characterization of proteins in the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2, a key epigenetic regulator for normal development and various diseases) and investigation of their recruitment in cancer.
- Hosted by the Division of Proteomics of Stem Cells and Cancer led by Prof. Jeroen Krijgsveld
- Supervised by Dr. Dimitris Papageorgiou
- 02 - 03 2019: Internship
- Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
- Giant unilamellar vesicle-based microfluidics fabrication of uniform human neural co-culture spheroids for high-throughput microplastic neurotoxicity screening, original and independent research project.
- Hosted by the Department of Cellular Biophysics led by Prof. Joachim Spatz
- Supervised by PhD candidate Oskar Staufer
- 10 2017 - 08 2018: Bachelor thesis
- Hubrecht Institute
- Projects: 1) Induction of the differentiation of gastric endocrine and exocrine cells in human stomach organoids, 2) and Epstein-Barr virus-positive gastric adenocarcinoma modelling with human stomach organoids using genome editing strategies (CRISPR/Cas9 and lentivirus infection).
- Hosted by the Clevers group led by Prof. Hans Clevers
- Supervised by Dr. Georg Busslinger
- Examiner: Dr. Bas Defize
- 07 - 09 2017: Internship
- Regenerative Medicine Centre Utrecht, University Medical Centre Utrecht
- Introduced to cell/tissue culture, and confocal imaging with fluorescence-stained hydrogel-based 3D tissue culture for the development of heart-on-a-chip used to investigate patient-specific cardiac remodelling following myocardial infarction. Literature study on the use of nanoparticles for cardiac repair. Selected through the University College Utrecht Alumni Internship program.
- Supervised by Dr. Tom Bracco Gartner & Dr. Jesper Hjortnaes