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Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

- Founder and coördinator.- Providing a safe and supportive environment at festivals for those experiencing a variety of challenging, non-medical, experiences. Our team of experienced assists festival attendees through difficult experiences, whether they are drug-related or not. We are there for you, with love and without judgment.- Landjuweel Festival 2024 (Ruigoord); Dutch Decompression 2023.

Social therapist at forensic psychiatric clinics of Dienst Justitële Inrichtingen (DJI). Supporting patients in their daily activities and building treatment-oriented relationship. Experiences include psychotic, autism spectrum, trauma-related, personality, mood, behavioral and substance use disorders.Trainings completed: - Recovery-oriented work: basics- Recovery-oriented work: practics

- Team lead programming ICPR 2022: As team lead of the Programming team of the 5th Interdisciplinary Conference for Psychedelic Research (ICPR) organised by the Open Foundation, I coordinated the volunteers team responsible for the invitation, selection of and communication with speakers and workshops for the conference. Besides, I was involved in many other practices of the organisation, working closely together with Joost Breeksema (conference director) and Pedram Dara (conference manager).- Programming Team membership programme. Organising online events (presentations, Q&A, panel discussions, etc) for the membership programme.- Team member programming team ICPR 2024: Responsible for the invitation, selection of and communication with speakers for the conference as well as creating the programme and moderating sessions during ICPR 2024.

Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

In the RE.PROCES study lead by Dr. David van den Berg at the Mark van der Gaag Research Center, the effects of three different trauma treatments (Cognitive restructuring, EMDR, exposure) are investigated for people with psychotic symptoms that have experienced traumatic events. I was responsible for the EMDR fidelity of the study. Because of this I followed the EMDR basic training in Nov 2023. More info: https://mrcresearch.nl/project/re-process/ead

Assisted Heval Ozgen , MD, PhD, and Gerard van Kesteren (PhD cand.) in several clinical trials investigating the safety, feasibility, and efficacy of psychedelics-assisted therapy. Collaborations amongst others with MAPS, ARQ Centrum '45 and LUMC.

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

Security at Equinix datacenter locations AM3/4, AM6 and AM8.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Teaching assistant for the bachelor Psychobiology, University of Amsterdam. I taught the practical workgroups for the 1st and 2nd year students of the Psychobiology bachelor for the courses Introduction Natlab, Genetics & Evolution, Cell biology and Molecular Cell biology. My goal is to create a safe environment for students to ask questions, learn and grow, and share my enthusiasm about conducting science!

Jerusalem Area, Israel

Visiting research fellow at the lab of Dr. Inbal Goshen, ELSC, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Here I investigated astrocyte-neurons connectivity in the rodent striatum. Supervised by Dr. Inbal Goshen and Ron Rafaeli, MSc.www.goshenlab.com Project title: "Astrocytic domains in the dorsolateral striatum"Grade: 8.0/10.0Techniques: stereotactic virus injections; perfusions; CLARITY; confocal imaging; FluoView; IMARIS; ImageJ; immunohistochemistry; behavioural paradigms.Funding: JBC Travel Exchange for International Young Researchers in Brain and Cognitive Science Scholarship, issued by the Jerusalem Brain Community, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, September 2018.

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

Research intern at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Brain Plasticity group of Prof. Dr. Paul Lucassen (http://sils.uva.nl/sfpns). Worked on the effects of early life stress on brain programming by using mice models. Supervised by Dr. Aniko Korosi and Dr. Maralinde Abbink. Project title: "Early-life stress induced vulnerability to Western-style diet in mice." Grade: 8.1/10.0Techniques: Immunohistochemistry, fluorescent microscopy, behavioural analysis. Publication: "The Effects of Early Life Stress, Postnatal Diet Modulation, and Long-Term Western-Style Diet on Later-Life Metabolic and Cognitive Outcomes" by Abbink et al., Nutrients, 2020.Extra curricular:- Organization committee of annual Neurobiology Master Tracks Symposium, 2018- Poster presentation at the annual Dutch Neuroscience Meeting, Lunteren 2018.

Utrecht En Omgeving, Nederland

Bachelor internship & thesis. Title of project: "Underprescription of clozapinein treatment-resistant schizophrenia"Department: PsychiatrySupervisor: Cynthia Okhuijsen-Pfeifer. Grade: 8.0/10.0Publication: "Differences between physicians’ and nurse practitioners’ viewpoints on reasons for clozapine underprescription." by Ockhuijsen-Pfeifer et al., 2019 Brain and Behavior. Additional: Intern at Clozapine International study.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

As principal secretary was I responsible for communication with the party members as well as external contacts. As member of the 3 headed board I was also responsible for the daily functioning and promotion of the party.

Hilversum

Medewerker verkoopklaar, kassa en bakkerij

Kaapstad En Omgeving, Zuid-Afrika

"Gap student" at Wynberg Girls' High School (WGHS) as part of the 9-month exchange program of the Alberdingk Thijm Scholen and the Robert Storms Foundation. At WGHS I was an round assistant of the school staff, including teachers, administration staff, after school activities and at the boarding house.

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Part-time psychology student aiming to become a licensed clinical psychologist.

Master Of Science - Msc, Neuropharmacology, Gpa: 7.95

Activities and Societies: Member of Program Committee Biomedical Sciences Master, organization of Annual Conference Biomedical Masters..

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychobiologie / Fysioilogische Psychologie

Bachelor about neurosciences: psychological, biological, evolutionary, cellular and molecular aspects. A selection of attended courses.

Minor Theoretical Philosophy, Humanities

Vwo Diploma, Natural Sciences And Health

Activities and Societies: - Exchange student "Gap year South Africa" sponsored by Robert Storms Foundation and Alberdingk Thijm Scholen.