Femke Mathot

A 203 Curriculum vitae CURRICULUM VITAE Femke Mathot was born on November 5 th , 1991 in Boskoop, The Netherlands, where she grew up with her parents and her two brothers. After graduating high school in 2009, she attended medical school at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. For her master thesis she went to Melbourne, Australia to perform a study which eventually resulted in her first scientific publication. A minor on reconstructive surgery from head to hands in her fourth year of medical school, introduced her to plastic and reconstructive surgery and caused her growing interest into this medical field. After completing her senior internship at the plastic and reconstructive surgery department of the Erasmus Medical Center, she obtained her medical degree in 2016 and started working as a resident not in training at the general surgery department of the Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam. In October 2016, she was invited for a research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Until November 2017 she worked in the microvascular research lab of the Mayo Clinic as a research fellow under the supervision of Dr. A.Y. Shin, Dr. A.T. Bishop and Prof. Dr. S.E.R. Hovius. The basic science studies she performed during that time laid the foundation of this PhD thesis. During her research fellowship she contributed to a NIH grant application, which was granted to the microvascular research lab just before her return to the Netherlands. This grant enabled the continuation of the research on peripheral nerve regeneration. Upon her return in the Netherlands, she combined her PhD trajectory with clinical work as a resident not in training at the plastic surgery department at the Radboudumc, under the supervision of prof. dr. D.J.O. Ulrich. In October 2018 she was admitted to the residency program of this department. She started residency at the general surgery department at the IJsselland Hospital under the supervision of dr. P.G. Doornebosch in April 2019. In October 2020 she returned to the Radboudumc for the continuation of the final 4 years of her residency in plastic surgery.