My background is in applied physics with a focus on condensed matter. I received my Bachelors and Masters from the Technical University of Eindhoven. During my studies, I worked in the NanoSpin at Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) on magnonic crystals and spent a year studying the formation of the Golgi apparatus (an organelle of a cell) at Institut Curie under the supervision of Pierre Sens and Kees Storm.