About me
Hi there! I’m Laura – a bioinformatics trainer and data‐driven researcher passionate about plant symbiosis and reproducible science. Here you’ll find my R&D projects, teaching materials, and outreach highlights. Feel free to explore and drop me a line if you’d like to collaborate or learn more!
Science
Read more about my scientific projects on the amazing fern Azolla. Scientific projects include metagenomics, fern physiology and phylogeny.
Outreach
The public funds my science; hence I’m a public servant. I try to help out in educative and outreach activities whenever I can to give back and communicate the science I’m involved in.
Teaching
Academics are teachers as well as scientists. As a PhD, I have been granted extra time to work on my teaching skills. With this time, I aim to be certified with a ‘basic teaching qualification’ at the end of my PhD.
Management
I am actively involved in several management bodies to represent fellow PhDs and practice my leadership skills. These management bodies include the Graduate School of Life Sciences and the Open Science programme, both here at UU.
Photography
I love photography, as an art and as a science. Here are some examples of my photos, mostly macro’s of plants and landscapes of travelling.
Latest Curriculum Vitae
Like a true nerd, my CV is versioned and rendered via GitHub actions. Download it here! And fellow-nerds can find the source code here