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About the author255A4Emma Boersma- von Scheibler was born on March 7th, 1992 in Verwoerdburg, South-Africa. At the age of three she moved with her family to Weert, the Netherlands. In 2010 she graduated from secondary school (Atheneum) at Philips van Horne in Weert. After this she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University in 2013. She completed the first year of the Master Health Food Innovation Management before she started in 2014 with the Master Physician-Clinical Investigator to graduate as a medical doctor in 2018 at Maastricht University. During her last year she did a 9-month internship at the Department of Clinical Genetics at the Maastricht University Medical Center+ (MUMC+) to study genetic variants associated with dilated cardiomyopathy. After graduating she worked for one year as a resident at the Department of Internal Medicine at the Maxima Medical Center (MMC) in Veldhoven. In 2019 she started as a PhD candidate at Advisium, ‘s Heeren Loo, Amersfoort, and the Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology at Maastricht University.During her PhD trajectory she was involved in several projects with national and international collaborations to increase knowledge of conditions associated with the adult phenotype of genetic neurodevelopmental disorders, with a focus on 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, aimed at improving medical care for this population. She spent one month at the Department of Human Genetics at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) for research collaborations and a clinical internship. She also spoke at multiple national and international conferences and has been on the organizing committee of national symposia. In addition, she was involved in educational roles as a tutor and supervisor for bachelor and master students of Maastricht University and has been a reviewer for the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. During her trajectory she received a mobility grant from