Matt Harmon

220 Appendices Curriculum Vitae Matthew Bruce Andr Harmon was born on the 11 th  of August 1986 in Washington D.C., United States of America (USA). He lived in Alexandria, Virginia for the first eight years of his life. When he was eight years old he moved with his family to The Hague in the Netherlands. In The Hague he attended high school at the “Vrijzinnig Christelijk Lyceum”. He graduated in 2005. Matthew then attended Claremont Mckenna College in Los Angeles, California for one year. After that, he began his medical studies at the Vrije Universiteit Medical Center (VUmc) in Amsterdam in 2006. He started his scientific career in his third year of medical studies, at the Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences at the VU looking at the Leucine- rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) in pathology specimens from patients with Parkinson’s Disease under supervision of dr. W.D.J. van de Berg. For his final research thesis of medical school, he examined anastomotic stricture formation after treatment of esophageal atresia at the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the VUmc together with dr. A.F.W. van der Steeg. After a clinical internship at the Department of Intensive Care at the VUmc, he developed a special interest in the field of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine. To follow this interest in intensive care medicine, Matthew started his PhD studies at the Department of Intensive Care of the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, with a thesis titled “Exploring body temperature alterations in the critically ill”, under supervision of prof. dr. M.J. Schultz and prof dr. N.P. Juffermans. During this period, he participated in the Cooling and Surviving Septic Shock study, a collaboration between the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen and the AMC in Amsterdam. In 2019, Matthew won the best abstract award at the “Nederlandse intensivisten dagen” in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for his presentation on the effects of induced normothermia on coagulation in endotoxemia. In January of 2018 Matthew started his anesthesiology residency at the Leiden University Medical Center.