Dianne E. van der Wal: New Academic Chapter in Platelet Science and Biomedical Education
Dianne E. van der Wal, Researcher at ANZAC Research Institute (Sydney Local Health District), posted on LinkedIn:
“This will be the last week working at the ANZAC Research Institute.
I’m very excited to share that as per Dec of this year, I’ll be working as a lecturer at the University of Tasmania in Laboratory Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, combining my 2 passions: teaching and research.
I realised I’ve been teaching my whole life, starting with tutoring my 2 younger sisters.
My career journey has been far from easy and standard.
The good, bad and sadly the ugly too….
As first in my family going to university, starting a BSc in Biotechnology a long time ago, in the far north of NL, improving plants, moving into medical research later on after many different stints working as a research assistant.
Doing a PhD was one of the best decisions of my life.
The life of a researcher is often an international one, however I never expected to be moving overseas 4 times Starting every time from scratch was an adventure, however challenging at times, without a network.
Especially moving in and out of academia…
I’ve met some incredible people and role models over the years and wouldn’t be here without help, support from ‘a village’ and collaborations with many inspiring people, also during my lab visits in Germany and Ireland, in random order I’d like to thank:
- My BSc supervisor Jeroen Van Arkel for teaching me most important laboratory skills
- My PhD supervisor Jan Willem Akkerman for teaching me about platelets (drawing them on a piece of paper).
- Prof. Heyu Ni, for letting me work on my own research ideas, which has culminated in diagnostic and treatment tools for bleeding disorder patients and my passion for platelet carbohydrates
- My students whom always inspired and taught me so much
- The fantastic ISTH community, as well as my time as social media editor for J Thrombosis and Haemostasis and Platelet SSC were truly major highlights!
- My science communication journey incl book chapter and 1st Illustrated review about my favourite and smallest blood cells, platelets!
- My mentors and mentees, you helped me navigating this journey and kept me going.”
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