Curriculum Vitae

Daniël Bernardus (Daan) van Schalkwijk was born in 1982 in Laren (NH). He completed an International Baccalaureate education at the International SchoolHilversum “Alberdingk Thijm” in 2000, and went on to study Biology at the VrijeUniversiteit Amsterdam (VUA), where he received his Bachelor’s degree cum laude in biology in 2003 and his Master’s degree in theoretical biology in 2006. During his Master period he did an internship in Alcalá de Henares on modeling forest growth in the Madrid area; he also did an internship at the Theoretical Biology department at the VUA on modeling sleep energetics. As a PhD student, he was employed at the Leiden AmsterdamCentre for Drug Research (LACDR) at Leiden University, but stationed at TNO in Zeist (2006-2010). In the later stages of his PhD project (March 2010 - present) he started working as a research scientist at TNO. He was awarded a young investigator award by the International Atherosclerosis Society at their symposium in Boston in 2009. In 2011 he started teaching at Amsterdam University College and started being director of Leidenhoven College, a collegeate hall of residence in Amsterdam, next to his work at TNO.

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Ebook on Smashwords (for my Statistics students, proceeds go to Harambee USA charity)

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