My academic journey in Nanobiology at Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam laid the foundation for everything I know about the science of life at the smallest scale. This interdisciplinary field, combining physics, mathematics, and chemistry, offers a powerful lens through which to explore biological systems.

In the final years of my studies, I became increasingly fascinated by the question of how life began and the emerging, imaginative field of synthetic cells. I explored this interest in depth by writing my MSc thesis on the directed evolution of synthetic cell models.