Team

Milou Venema

Human Practices manager, Wet lab team member & Secretary

Milou studies MSc Biomedical Sciences and comes from the Netherlands. Her personality type is ENFJ-A, a.k.a the Assertive Protagonist. Some of her guilty pleasures are watching trashy TV shows and building sand castles. You might be surprised that she can shuffle and enjoys reading (but not watching!) horror stories.

Ivelina Goldstein

Team leader, Social media, Sponsorship & Wiki manager and Wet lab member

Ivelina studies MSc Biomedical Sciences and comes from Bulgaria. Her personality type is ENFP-T, a.k.a the Turbulent Campaigner. Her guilty pleasures are signing and dancing like nobody's watching. A curious fact about her is that she can read and write in 3 alphabets - cyrilic, latin and hebrew.

Carian Kuitert

Wet lab & Safety manager, Sponsorship team member

Carian studies MSc Biomedical Sciences and comes from the Netherlands. Her personality type is ISFJ-T, a.k.a the Defender. Some of her guilty pleasures are playing old school video games and binge reading. Surprisingly, she never got a high school diploma, but is currently a university master student.

Jan Vučković

Education manager, Wiki & Wet lab team member

Jan studies MSc in Chemistry and comes from Croatia. His personality type is INTJ, a.k.a the Architect. A guilty pleasure of his is playing trash mobile games to the extent they take over my life. A surprising fact about him is that he can touch the tip of his nose with his tongue.

Sofía Jiménez Ochoa

Dry lab, Wet lab & Education team member

Sofia studies MSc in Ecology and Evolution and comes from Spain. Her personality type is ENFP-A, a.k.a the Campaigner. A guilty pleasure of hers is eating food with her hands that was not meant to be eaten that way. A surprising fact about her is that she has moved homes 8 times in the last 3 years.

Ritten Roothaert

Finance & Dry lab manager, Human Practices team member

Ritten studies MSc Artificial Intelligence and comes from the Netherlands. His personality type is INFP-T, a.k.a the Turbulent Mediator. Some of his guilty pleasures are eating a bucket of Ben & Jerry's while watching Avatar: The last air bender. Surprisingly, he can identify more than 50 vegetables/flowers based on the color, shape, size and smell of their seeds.

Zahra Farahbakhsh

Sponsorship & Education team member

Zahra studies MSc Biomedical Engineering and comes from Iran. Her personality type is ENFJ-A, a.k.a the Protagonist. Her guilty pleasure is watching Netflix back to back all day. A surprising fact about her is that she did her bachelor degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

Vanesa Borisova

Design & Education team member

Vanesa studies BA Graphic & Interactive Design and comes from Bulgaria. Her personality type is INFP-T; a.k.a the Mediator. Her guilty pleasure is watching Twilight and actually enjoying it. A surprising fact about her is that she speaks 3 languages (Bulgarian, English and German) and was going to study medicine

Teodora Obushtarova

Design team member

Teodora studies BA Graphic and Interactive design and comes from Bulgaria. Her personality type is INTJ, a.k.a the Architect. Her guilty pleasures are mathematics and watermelon. She is surprisingly good at picking stuff from the ground with her toes.