10. Appendices 237 10. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vazula Zulfra Bekkers was born on July 19, 1997, and raised in Rotterdam by her Surinamese mother, Halimoennisa Kasiemkhan, and Dutch father, Frenk Bekkers. She graduated from Wolfert Dalton’s Gymnasium in Rotterdam in 2015. From 2015 to 2018 she pursued her bachelor’s degree in Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam. In the weekends she returned to Rotterdam to accompany her cousin as her caregiver and close friend. During her master's degree in Medicine and PhD in dermatology, Vazula studied extracurricular courses in the bachelor's programs of Philosophy and Health Economy Policy and Law at Erasmus University. She also served her fellow students as the master commissioner on the board of the Co-Raad VU from 2019 to 2020. She moved back to Rotterdam in 2020, where she started investigating aerosol formation of bleomycin with needle free jet injectors at the dermatology department of Erasmus Medical Center (EMC) under supervision of dr. Liora Bik and dr. Martijn van Doorn. In 2021, she finished her clinical rotations with the final rotation at the plastic surgery department of the Groene Hart Hospital in Gouda. Motivated by the potential of needle-free jet-injectior-assisted drug delivery in dermatology, she completed her master degree in Medicine with research on this topic in 2021. Supported by the dermatology department of EMC and the Centre for Human Drug Research in Leiden, she formally continued her research by working on her doctoral thesis on needle-free jet injector-assisted drug delivery in severe keloids under the supervision of dr. Martijn van Doorn, prof. dr. Robert Rissmann and prof. dr. Errol Prens. In 2024 she also worked as a psychiatry resident in GGZ Rivierduinen in Leidschendam, while finishing her doctoral thesis in dermatology. On June the 29th of 2022 Vazula married with Tarik Küçük, who she met at the Medical Faculty of EMC. They now enjoy a happy life together in Rotterdam in the company of their two cats, Sonna and Mia.
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