Merlijn Sluiter is IDE graduate 7000

On 11 May, we welcomed our 7000th graduate student. Congratulations to Merlijn Sluiter! Our dean Ena Voûte surprised her after her online thesis defence. Merlijn graduated under Associate Professor Jan Carel Diehl and Professor Jo van Engelen. She performed research on schistosomiasis (or bilharzia) amongst children, farmers and rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.