After finishing my master’s in Molecular Life Science at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, I started my PhD in transplantation immunology under the supervision of Frans Claas, Sebastiaan Heidt, and Dave Roelen at the department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion of the LUMC. In 2020, I successfully defended my thesis “Towards HLA epitope matching in clinical transplantation” at the Leiden University. Since 2020, I am working as a postdoctoral researcher in the transplant immunology group in the department of Immunology. The focus of my research is the definition of immunogenic epitopes and the generation and characterization of human recombinant monoclonal HLA class II antibodies.