234 | Appendices CURRICULUM VITAE Feddo Kirkels was born on the 27th of May 1993 in Utrecht to Hans Kirkels and Rian van Kessel. He grew up in Zeist together with his sisters Harmke and Yanne. After graduating with honours from the Herman Jordan Lyceum Zeist in 2011, he started medical school at the University of Utrecht. He participated in the Bachelor Honours program with research on optimal lead positioning in cardiac resynchronization therapy under supervision of Prof. Mathias Meine. He combined his studies with a love for traveling by doing clinical rotations in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Nkhoma, Malawi. During his Master’s degree, he met Dr. Maarten-Jan Cramer, who, together with Dr. Thomas Mast and Dr. Arco Teske, introduced him into the world of echocardiographic deformation imaging. During his final year, Feddo performed a scientific internship in the Oslo University Hospital in Norway under supervision of Prof. Kristina Haugaa and Dr. Øyvind Lie. At that time, the plan for a PhD trajectory was set out in which Feddo would work within a triangular collaboration between Oslo, Utrecht and the group of mechanical engineers led by Prof. Joost Lumens from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. After graduating medical school in 2018, he started his PhD track investigating the added clinical value of deformation imaging in genetic cardiomyopathies under supervision of Prof. Folkert Asselbergs, Prof. Joost Lumens, Dr. Maarten-Jan Cramer and Dr. Arco Teske. During this time, he obtained the accreditation in adult transthoracic echocardiography by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). He spent one year working in the University Hospital Oslo under supervision of Prof. Kristina Haugaa, with an interruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic. After working as a cardiology resident (ANIOS), Feddo started his cardiology training in June 2023 in the University Medical Center Utrecht under supervision of Dr. Gertjan Sieswerda and Dr. Nick Clappers. Feddo lives in Utrecht together with Yvette Löwensteyn.
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