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Meet the team

Our team comprises of 13 students from TU Delft, Leiden University and Rotterdam University. We are a multi-national team with very diverse backgrounds, including biology, physics and industrial design. Thus, we are well equipped to tackle the broad range of challenges an iGEM project throws up!

Click on a person or scroll through the profiles below!

Tomek Diederen

Function: Science Manager

Nationality: Dutch

Background: Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Anne van der Meij

Function: Science-manager

Nationality: Dutch

Background: Microbial Biotechnology

Sim Castle

Function: Gadget building manager

Nationality: English/Finnish

Background: Industrial Design Engineering

Mariëlle van Kooten

Function: Science Manager

Nationality: Dutch

Background: Molecular and Cellular Biology

My interests are, amongst others, signal transduction mechanisms and signaling

networks. These and other aspects lead to an interest in synthetic biology: to develop

a minimal cell, understand the fundamentals of biology and begin the process of building a

new cell and organism with optimized functions. To me, the complexity and opportunities in the

field of molecular and cellular systems are amazingly challenging and the possibility of building

biological systems and operating them in living cells is, in my opinion, grand. On a different l

evel, I would like to explore approaching challenges multidisciplinary, creating a dynamic

get-together in which it is possible to optimize existing strategies and consider new leads.

I am keen to bring things to the next level in collaborations.

Cristy Verzijl

Function: Lab manager

Nationality: Dutch

Background: Biology and Medical laboratory research

Duco Blanken

Function: Policy & Practice manager

Nationality: Dutch

Background: Applied Physics.

Hi, my name is Duco. Im 22 years old and I live in Delft. I´ve done a bachelor

in applied physics and I´m currently doing an applied physics master with a focus

on bionanoscience. In this iGEM project, my main role is that of Policy&Practice manager,

which comes down to me having a lot of interesting discussions with various stakeholders

during the summer. Besides my P&P job, I've been involved in the modeling and

characterization parts of our project. I've really enjoyed my participation in iGEM,

and I can't wait to tell other iGEM teams about our awesome project at the jamboree

.

Mathijs Rozemuller

Function: Modeling Manager

Nationality: Dutch

Background: Applied Physic

Joan Cortada García

Function: Safety and Science manager

Nationality: Spanish

Background: Biotechnology

I'm Joan and I have studied a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology in the area of my

natal city, Barcelona. I am currently studying at TU Delft a Master of Science in

Biochemical Engineering. I really like travelling, taking pictures, eating nice food

and playing the piano. Regarding iGEM, I have been involved together with Tomek, Mariëlle

and Anne in the decision making of scientific matters; as well as taking responsibility of

the safety issues with the collaboration of Anamaria.

Anamaria Buda

Function: Team Leader

Nationality: Romanian

Background: Management of Technology

Janna Bogers

Function: Fundraising and PR

Nationality: Dutch

Background: Nanobiology

Esra Bekdas

Function Manager: Graphic Design

Nationality: Dutch-born to Turkish parents

Background: Biology and Medical Laboratory Research / Life Sciences

Anton Pols

Function: Modeling Manager

Nationality: Dutch

Background: Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering

Hi, I am Anton. Currently, I am doing a Masters in Applied Physics and I finished my

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, both at Delft University of Technology.

My responsibilities are managing the modeling efforts of our team together with Mathijs.

I do a lot of modeling myself as well. Also, I helped with the fundraising and coding

of our wiki page. I am really looking forward to presenting our results at the Giant

Jamboree in Boston, as well as learning about the work other iGEM teams did.

Debu Ghosh

Function: Social chair

Nationality: Indian

Background: Mechanical and control engineering

Advisors

Dr. Anne Meyer

ing. Esengül Yildirim

Jorine Eeftens MSc.

Dominik Schmieden MSc.

Dr. Timon Idema