About the author

Let me tell you a bit about who I am and how I got where I am now. For privacy reasons I won’t go into much detail, but you’ll get the idea.

I grew up into a rather small village in the Netherlands, and went to high school there. In high school, surprisingly little happened, it was actually one of the most boring experiences of my life.

But after high school I wanted to go to the university, to study chemistry. Now, most universities located in the Netherlands didn’t really appeal to me. But then I came across a university in Germany, and I knew that I wanted to go there.

Without any German language skills, I enrolled, moved to Germany and then it all began. The first weeks were a bit though, mainly because of the problems I had with speaking and understanding German. Anyways, my friends helped me through all this and after a few months I basically forgot that German is not my native language.

Now chemistry has always interested me, and doing nothing else but chemistry now is exactly what I want. No more boring history classes, just me and my field of interest.

During the first year, everything was new; the language, the country, the city, the people, the classes and so on. Now, after two years, it all comes natural to me. Things go easy; I go to classes, do my experiments, write my exams, hang out with my friends and girlfriend, life is good.

So that’s where I am now, but it doesn’t end here. After majoring in chemistry, I’m going to do research and hope to get my doctorate. It’s a dream I always had, being able to put Dr. in front of my name all the time.

Science is exponentially growing, and we can expect some great results in the next decades. My biggest goal is to be a part of that. Being able to look back in my old days and say that I took part in the expanding of human knowledge.