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211 A CURRICULUM VITAE Britt Blokker was born in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, on the 2nd of July 1986. She finished grammar school (gymnasium) at the Christelijk Lyceum Delft in 2004 and startedmedical school that same year, at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Medical school included scientific research projects, two of which Britt performed abroad: one in Wisconsin, USA, and one in Western Australia. Through these experiences she has become interested in doing medical research. Another of Britt’s interests, already from an early age, has been pathology. Therefore, at career choice days during both grammar school and medical school, she arranged for herself to shadow pathologists. Her final internship in medicine she spent at the Department of Pathology of the Erasmus University Medical Centre and at the Department of Forensic Pathology at the Netherlands Forensic Institute. After Britt finished medical school in 2011, she became a pathology resident at the Erasmus University Medical Centre. During her residency she was enabled to do research on the Minimally Invasive Autopsy, the results of which are presented in this thesis. Curriculum Vitae