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My CV

• Education:

  after my secondary school, at 18, i studied 2 years in the netherlands, one year in the UK, in Norwich. Then 6 months in the USA and the rest 3.5 years in the netherlands to become Dr Maurits :-). I always wanted to enter the sciences, and i feel i made the right decision. What i would particularly recommend is to study languages on the side, as many as you can. They allow you to travel the world, work in many countries (“the world is your playing field”) and to interact with many different cultures. Just a few sentences in another language go such a long way in establishing a friendly conversation, you learn so much, you earn so much credits.

• Qualifications:

  see above, first chemistry, then a PhD in chemistry. Also a lot of management trainings at business schools around the world. However, I learnt most of my skills “on the job”, by taking on new challenges and by observing people that are good at skills that i wanted to develop. It is like in sports: try to improve yourself a little bit every day!

• Work History:

  I worked recently in a business that was fighting plastics pollution, turning used plastics into something useful. That was in my former company.

• Employer:

  see earlier: Johnson Matthey develops technology that enables our customers to produce cleaner chemicals, sustainable fuels for aircraft, fuel cells to replace diesel engines, etc. We have been around for 206 years, but we are re-inventing ourselves regularly.