286 Appendix ABOUT THE AUTHOR Patrick Petrus Gijsbertus Mulder was born in 1995 in De Zilk. It was already at high school that he became passionate about medicine and biology. After high school, he decided to go to the University of Applied Sciences in Leiden for a Bachelor’s program on Biology and Medical Laboratory Science in 2012. During the third year of his study he was involved in an international program for which he traveled to Canada to perform an internship in the group of professor Douglas Storey at the University of Calgary. He there studied P. aeruginosa infection during cystic fibrosis. To conclude his Bachelor’s program in 2016, he performed an internship to learn more about infection diagnostics at the Regional Laboratory for Public Health in Haarlem followed by a research internship in the group of dr. Bas Zaat at the Department of Medical Microbiology & Infection Prevention of the Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam he investigated the synergistic interaction between synthetic antimicrobial peptides and antibiotics and wrote his first research paper together with Bruce Koppen. He continued studying and followed a Master’s program in Biomedical Sciences at the VU University in Amsterdam in 2016, specializing in immunology and infectious diseases. He combined this program with a part-time job, first as a cook at Italian restaurant Woodstone in Haarlem and later as a microbiology analyst at the Regional Laboratory for Public Health. For his first internship he conducted a research project in the dr. Alex de Vos at the Center of Experimental and Molecular Medicine of the AMC in Amsterdam. There, he studied interactions between immune receptor DC-SIGN and K. pneumoniae. For his final internship, he investigated uptake and internalization of various liposome vaccines by sentinel macrophages as potential treatment for cancer. This research took place in the group of dr. Joke den Haan at the Department of Molecular Cell Biology & Immunology of the VU Medical Center in Amsterdam.
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