318 Appendices positive attitude towards everything you do is admirable and I felt your contagious energy whenever we encountered in the corridor. Thank you for brightening those days and being a great colleague! Dear Nataliya, thank you for your willingness to contribute to the team despite the challenging start you had during the major lockdown or going to and coming back from the US. I also would like to thank to the rest of the EXPIRE team members from past and present: to Dennis, for bringing an interesting angle to many conversations we had in the coffee room; to Maud, for adding positivity and kindness to every room you are in; to Gwenda, for setting a good example of a hardworking and detailed-oriented scientist starting from my early days; to Martin, for your cheerful chats during lunches as well as your help and guidance in bioinformatics analyses; to Marijn, for converting our coffee breaks to a baking festival; to Kingsley, for your availability and support, despite our limited direct interaction after you moved to Canada; to Daan, for very good and on-point advices since the beginning of my trajectory and for being a good role model of successful young investigator; to Laura, for showing that checking in with people no matter what doesn’t cost you anything; to Merel, for going out of your way to kindly help us; to Mirjam, for the help when I was a Master’s student and in the initial stages of my PhD; to Sjoers and Lei, for the nice chats in the last couple of months. I wish you all best of luck in finalizing your projects, whether it’s a PhD or a post-doc project. To my students over the last four years: Jelmer (again), Hilde & Adrianne, Rhode, Mallak and Frederique. thank you for joining me long the road. Thanks to you, I discovered numerous ways to improve the scientist, mentor and colleague in me. During the four years of my PhD trajectory, I have interacted with different groups and departments, which all helped me directly or indirectly to improve myself in various ways. In the Lung Pathology group: Dear Machteld, I would like start by thanking you for including me in your collaborative project on 3D bioprinting with Marco and Janette back when I was looking for a group to join in Groningen. Thanks to your initiative, I was introduced to the Lung Pathology and EXPIRE teams. I would also like to thank you for your feedback and suggestions on our projects during the group meetings. Dear Corry-Anke, I would like to thank you for all of your input in different projects over the years. Whether you were directly involved in the projects or not, your constructive criticism helped us improve our projects. Dear Roy, thank you for nice and fruitful scientific chats as well as for always willing to help. Dear Marjan and Wierd, thank you for your kind help over the years with whatever random question I had to ask. Thanks to your immense efforts, some of the studies containing
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