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Curriculum Vitae
Meta Roestenberg was born on the 24 th of January 1981 in De Bilt, The
Netherlands. She completed bilingual highschool at the Alberdingk Thijm College
in Hilversum with the international baccalaureate diploma. She studied
Medicine at the University of Maastricht, where she obtained her medical
degree cum laude in 2004. During her medical training Meta had the opportunity
to follow internships in Africa and South-East Asia, where she became fascinated
by infectious diseases. She returned to India for additional training several
months after her graduation and then decided to dedicate her professional
carreer to poverty related infectious diseases. Upon returning to The
Netherlands, she started malaria vaccine research at the department of Medical
Microbiology of the Radboud University Medical Center. In 2006 she began with
her training in internal medicine, first at the Radboud University Medical Center,
later at the Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, both in Nijmegen. In the meantime,
she continued to work on her PhD, alternating between clinical work and
research. In 2012 she started her subspecialisation for infectious diseases at the
Leiden University Medical Center. In the future, Meta hopes to continue clinical
research on vaccines to fight infectious diseases that cause significant morbidity
and mortality among the poorest people in the world.
Meta is married Jeroen Mulder and they have one son, Simon, born in 2011.