Text and Training was founded by Lisette van Hulst in 2009 to support medical residents in clearly and confidently reporting their research in scientific English. Since then, she has helped hundreds of students, PhD candidates and experienced scientists to describe their research and to formulate their conclusions in a clear and convincing way.
Now that Lisette is preparing to retire and dedicate her time to other interests, she can safely say that these last 16 years have been the most rewarding years of her career. Her support ranged from editing papers to teaching scientists how to structure, formulate and submit their papers and how to convey their research results in compelling presentations.
For her courses, Lisette developed a structure-oriented approach to writing that is particularly suited for scientists, even for those who think that they have no talent for writing or language whatsoever.
In this work, she used her experience as a journalist, editor and teacher and everything she learned about logical argumentation and writing when she studied Philosophy and English at Leiden University.
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In view of the excellent evaluations of the courses and the continuing interest among residents and researchers in teaching hospitals all over the Netherlands, Lisette is very pleased to have found a more than capable replacement for her teaching activities in Esther van de Vosse.
Esther obtained an MSc in Biomedical Sciences and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from Leiden University. She worked as a post-doc in the Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and subsequently as a post-doc and then as an assistant professor at the Infectious Diseases department of Leiden University Medical Center.
During her 20-year career as a scientist, Esther (co-) authored over 100 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, supervised PhD students, was an associate editor for one of the BMC journals, and reviewed articles for many other journals. In 2017, Esther became a freelance scientific writer. Information about her current work can be found here: www.evscienceconsultant.com
As you can see, Esther is perfectly suited to take over the scientific writing courses and, in time, all the other support activities of Text and Training.
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