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CURRICULUM VITAE Feddo Bauke van der Beek was born in Rotterdam on March 12, 1976. He attended secondary school at the Christelijk Lyceum Dr. W.A. Visser’t Hooft in Leiden and graduated in 1994. In that same year, he began his medical study at the Leiden University. In the course of his academic internship, he performed research on the effects of fractionated irradiation on osteosarcoma cells at the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1999, under the guidance of Prof. Y. Okumura and Dr. K. Okaichi. In 2003, he began his research in the field of cochlear implants as a physician researcher at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), which was the origin of the present thesis. From 2005 to 2010, he was trained as an otolaryngologist at the LUMC (supervisors Prof. Dr.Ir. J.H.M. Frijns and Dr. A.G.L. van der Mey), Westeinde Hospital, The Hague (supervisor Dr. H.P. Verschuur) and Rijnland Hospital, Leiderdorp (supervisors Dr. J.H. Hulshof and Dr. M.L. Sassen). From 2010 to 2013, he worked as an otolaryngologist in a combined appointment in the Diaconessenhuis Hospital and the LUMC in Leiden. In 2013, a two-month clinical observership was combined with research in the cochlear implant field at the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (Prof. Dr. A. Ernst, Dr. I. Todt and Dr. J. Wagner). From 2013 to May 2015, he worked as an ENT staff member at the LUMC with a focus on otology and cochlear implantations. Since May 2015, he has worked as an ENT surgeon in the Medical Spectrum Twente in Enschede. He has been married to Annemarie van der Beek-Kreeft since 2009, and they have two sons, Jan (2010) and Gijs (2012).

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