Alongside my research and professional work, I also actively join extracurricular initiatives to continuously learn beyond my core research, broaden my perspective, and contribute back to the community
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CyberMentor is an online mentoring program in Germany (https://www.cybermentorin.de/index.php/de/). It aims to encourage girls to participate in STEM activities and give advice on choosing a course and career.
Start date: April 2023 – Present
An 8-week online program for 100 German students and researchers, organized by GUILD Academy and the German Center for Research and Innovation in San Francisco
Start date: April 2024. End date: May 2024
The “Inspire high school kids!” program aims to introduce what university and researchers do and offer career exploration opportunities to high school student. In this program, researchers can give one-hour workshop about their research topics. My workshop focuses on bioinformatics, in which I give an overview about bioinformatics and some examples on how bioinformatics can apply in pharmacology and medicine areas.
The workshop has been given to:
Skills: Workshops · Presentation Skills. Associated with Maastricht University.
Women in Data Science (WiDS) Maastricht Datathon is a regional event and competition (but open to all) of the Global WiDS Datathon Competition. Participant will be given a data-related challenge and a limited amount of time to use their creativity and data science skills to build, test, and explore solutions.
Skills: Data Analysis · Machine Learning
Excerpt: Aim to develop a PharmaTranslate app to translate medicine names for travelers, refugees, and expats in an entrepreneurial competition at Maastricht University and Zuyd Hogeschool.
The Maastricht University Challenge is an competition for students and recent graduates of Maastricht University and Zuyd Hogeschool to develop innovative ideas related to societal and entrepreneurial issues.
In few months, we had developed our idea about a PharmaTranslate app. Our app PharmaTranslate allows travelers, refugees and expats to insert the generic name of the medicine they are familiar with in their native country and obtain the corresponding one used in the country where they currently are.
Skills: Business Development · Product Innovation · Entrepreneurship. Associated with PhD student at GROW school, Maastricht University
Start date: March, 2021. End date: November, 2021
Excerpt: Develop a web application for non-Dutch-speaking citizens to follow COVID-19 news. This web application was mentioned in the GROW school newsletters and the Hecht Maastricht UMC+ magazine in July 2020.
We are facing the Corona pandemic in the Netherlands. There are daily updates about new COVID-19 cases, number of deaths, but also precautions measurements in multiple channels. Most of them are in Dutch, which are inconvenient for a large population of non-Dutch speaking citizens.
Therefore, we have built this web application (https://coronanewshub.github.io/) for expats, so people can keep up-to-date with the COVID-19 news. This web application collects the news from different sources (RIVM, Dutch government), but also provides you with figures regarding Corona cases.
Skills: Coding · Product Innovation. Associated with PhD student at GROW school, Maastricht University
Date: April, 2020
Excerpt: Serve as a contact person and general voice for PhD students to discuss PhD-related topics with manager broad and organize social activities
PhD representatives serve as:
Skills: Strategy · Communication. Associated with PhD student at GROW school, Maastricht University
Start date: October, 2018. End date: September, 2020