Iris de Nie

168 APPPENDICES ABOUT THE AUTHOR Iris de Nie was born in Naarden on the 14 th of October 1990, and grew up in Weesp. After finishing her pre-university training at the Gemeentelijk Gymnasium in Hilversum, she took a gap year in which she travelled and worked as a volunteer in Argentina. In 2009, she started studying Medicine at the VU University in Amsterdam. During her studies she followed an internship in Paramaribo (Suriname) and did her scientific internship in Cape Town (South Africa). During her internships she became particularly enthusiastic about gynecology and urology and decided to conduct an eldest residency and an internship of choice in these departments. After her graduation she worked as a junior doctor (ANIOS) in the field of Andrology at the Center for Reproductive Medicine at the AMC. In this period, her mentor Andreas Meißner taught her the ins and outs of male fertility including procedures such as testicular sperm extraction (TESE) and microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration (MESA). In 2017, she met Norah van Mello who was setting up fertility care for transgender people at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria at the VUMC, and who asked Iris to assist her in setting up andrological care for transgender women. She started her work at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria in January 2018, where she combined clinical work with a PhD project under the senior supervision of prof. dr. Martin den Heijer and prof. dr. Judith Huirne. During the first years, her clinical work focused mainly on counseling adult transgender women about fertility preservation options and on endocrinological care for transgender people. During the final year of her PhD, she dedicated her clinical work to fertility care for transgender youth and adolescents, combined with andrological care for cisgender men at the Urology department of the AMC. Iris lives in Amsterdam with her partner Mark, and currently works as a junior doctor at the Urology department of the OLVG.