After
my high school diploma I started my studies in chemistry (analytical
and organic) at the "hogeschool" and finished with a Bachelors
degree as a teacher in chemistry. After one year of teaching
I decided to continue at the University in Nijmegen and got my
masters degree in bio-organic chemistry after 3 years in 1999. Subsequently,
I was asked to do a PhD study on the development of a biomaterial
coating based on DNA in a joint collaboration between the Eindhoven
University of Technology (TU/e) and the University of Nijmegen.
During my these 4 years I was trained in the fine art of cryo-electron
microscopy by the same group as Wim via a long and still
ongoing collaboration with the University of Maastricht. First on
a CM100 and JEOL, but later the TU/e purchased the first Titan Krios
and a T20 Sphera, which facilitated the best results of my thesis
period.
