Roels very short autobiography

Hi all,

It is nice to see that I interest you enough to read this bio.

I’m Roel de Haan from the track of neuroscience. I filled the previous three years with the bachelor bio-medical sciences, studying many aspects of many illnesses and treatments. During the bachelor I got more and more convinced that I had chosen the wrong path, because I didn’t care much for genetically modified yeasts and probiotics and synthesis-pathways of any (co-) enzyme.

So when I finished my bachelor thesis (on an in-host survival mechanism of a sometimes harmful yeast) I decided it was time for a change and the field of neuroscience looked promising. My main interest in the brain (and cognitive) sciences is cellular integration of complex input and how many levels of integration can give rise to something that we perceive as coherent thought, although I think our generation is not going to see this quest finished.

My first internship on a lab on Science Park will deal with a very small part of the big question; the search for the localization of synapses of a between two types of hippocampal neurons, measured in slices of a rat brain. My future plans are to graduate from this master, become a PhD, become professor, win the nobel prize and to become part of the shortlist of famous scientists ;)

Charles Darwin Albert Einstein Roel de Haan