M Beerens

CURRICULEM VITAE AUCTORIS 8 143 CURRICULUM VITAE AUCTORIS Moniek Beerens Schammersteeg 3 3835 PT Stoutenburg ortho@beerens.net MONIEK BEERENS was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 13 th 1981. She received her high school diploma from Public High School RSG ‘t Slingerbosch in Harderwijk, the Netherlands in 2000. In her last year of high school she, together with her high school friend, received an honourable reference as part of the Van Melsen Award of the Radboud University of Nijmegen, a programme for novel research projects conducted by high school students. In the same year she started her professional education at the Department of Dentistry and Oral Hygiene of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Groningen, RUG in The Netherlands. In 2005 she graduated with a Degree in General Dentistry. Her thesis was based on research conducted on the atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) approach for primary teeth in school children in Belém, Brasil. She was granted this research opportunity by the Department of Paediatric Dentistry of the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) in the Netherlands. After working as a dentist for one year she started a full time Post-Graduate Orthodontic Specialisation at the Department of Orthodontics of ACTA where she graduated in 2010. During her specialisation she performed in a randomised controlled trial, a research collaboration between the Departments of Orthodontics and Preventive Dentistry of ACTA. Following her specialisation she combined working as an orthodontist with preparing research publications that resulted in this thesis. She and her partner Erik Radius have a son, Floris (2016).