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Carbonyl sulfide, a way to quantify photosynthesis
Kooijmans, Linda Maria Johanna
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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” At the age of 13 I could already answer that question: meteorologist, but back then I called it: “weather forecaster, but not on television”. I had a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings and made copies at the library of articles about hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms and other weather extremes. In the second class of high school I therefore already knew what I wanted to study in college: Soil, Water and Atmosphere at Wageningen University, and after a few years of hard work that was indeed what I was going to do in 2008. During my studies, my passion for the weather got somewhat refined. It wasn’t so much the large-scale weather phenomena that caught my attention, but the fine details of how the air behaves as a reaction to what happens at the Earth’s surface; and not predicting the weather for the next day, but discovering connections between certain phenomena. Therefore, it followed naturally that during my BSc thesis I got interested in doing a PhD, in which doing research is central. After an internship doing experimental work at the Deutscher Wetterdienst in Lindenberg, Germany, and graduating cum laude in the Master Earth and Environment (also in Wageningen) I started my PhD in 2014 in Groningen, which led to the research that is now lying in front of you. During my PhD I gained more knowledge about the climate and the carbon cycle, and also the functioning of plants started intriguing me. In my PhD I performed measurements, mainly in the forests in Finland. After finishing my PhD I started a postdoctoral research position at Wageningen University, in which I changed from measuring to modelling the carbon cycle, building upon the knowledge that I gained during my PhD.
