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The author of this PhD thesis was born on the 8th of June, 1987 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He finished secondary school (bilingual athenaeum; International Baccalaureate English A2) in 2005 at ‘Het Goese Lyceum’ in Goes. He started studying Economics and Business Administration at the University of Amsterdam in the same year. In 2008, he decided to switch and study medicine at the Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam instead, as he wasn’t stimulated enough by his previous study. The field of oral and maxillofacial (OMF) surgery sparked his interest quite soon. After finishing a scientific internship on predictive parameters of zygomatic bone fractures, he was invited to continue research as a PhD candidate in 2013 at the Department of OMF surgery at the AMC during his clinical rotations. He obtained his medical doctor degree in 2014 and started studying dentistry in 2015 at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) to obtain his master’s degree in 2019.
Between 2014 and 2019 he gained work experience in various areas. He worked for one year at the Department of OMF surgery at the AMC (ANIOS), as a teacher at the Department of Medical and Dental Interaction at ACTA, and as a medical doctor for Sanquin (donorarts). For four years he worked at the Department of OMF surgery at the Spaarne Gasthuis in Haarlem, under the inspiring supervision of professor A.G. Becking, to assist in the three-dimensional virtual planning of orthognathic patients. During these years, he developed profound interests in orthognathic surgery, maxillofacial trauma, and computer-assisted surgery. To improve his organisational and teaching skills, he was a faculty member of the SORG navigation course in 2017 and took part in the organisation of the BSSO IPS workshop in 2017. Over the years, he was a guest lecturer for dental hygiene students/postgraduates. He also had a board position at the Dutch society of medical and dental interaction (VMTI) for three years.
In September 2019, he started his residency in OMF surgery at the
Amsterdam UMC location AMC (head: professor J. de Lange). A
He currently lives in Amsterdam with Femke Alberts and their daughter Veerle (2018).
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