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Microfluidic tools for multidimensional liquid chromatography Ianovska, Margaryta
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There are lot of people that made an impact on my life during PhD years. Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my Prof. Sabeth Verpoorte who accepted me for the position of PhD student in her Pharmaceutical Analysis group. Sabeth, you believed in me even when I was too critical to myself. You provided me with enormous freedom, which was the main condition to personalize my research and apply my creativity. I am grateful for your understanding and at the same time critical mindset, for your wisdom and all your encouragement!
I am also grateful to the following university staff: Patty Mulder and J.P. for their unfailing support and assistance during my PhD research. Patty, thank you for helping me in learning everything in the lab. Your input in my PhD is undeniably tremendous. J.P. thank you for trying so hard to help me with my research and many valuable lessons that you gave me for life. The hard times, that you have put me through, helped me to grow.
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I would like to thank my fellow doctoral students for their feedback, cooperation and of course friendship. Maureen, Nadiah, Sergio, Hanan and Pim, thank you for our amazing time together. You all are, first of all, my friends and only than colleagues. Your presence in the group made me feel that I want to come to the lunchroom and be a part of your joyful company. I always felt your support and eagerness to help in both research and in my daily life. I hope we can meet time to time and share cheerful updates about our lives.
Maureen, thank you for being both my colleague and my best friend here, far away
from my home country. I think we are so similar and because of this we are able to understand each other perfectly. I hope we will support each other in the future and our friendship will grow. Maybe one day we become partners in business, who knows :-) Hanan, I am very happy that we became closer this year. I hope we will never loose this! And remember, you will break any walls on your way, but nobody will break you, I am sure! Sergio, I wish you enormous achievements in both professional and personal life (don’t forget to invite me for the wedding).
Nadiah, I am happy to met you and I hope you will have a great scientific career! Pim, I am
very happy that my research helped yours and I hope one day we will have another bbq on your rooftop!
Thank you, Gert and Pieter, for sharing our lovely office and helping me so much, especially in the beginning. Gert, big thanks for reading and correcting a big part of this thesis.
Maciej S., thank you for helping with flow simulations. Maciej G., thank you for showing me
around in my first evening in Groningen, De Toeter is still one of my favorite places. ____________
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I would like to acknowledge The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for providing the funding for this work. I also would like to express my thankfulness to Ynze Mengerink for arranging the internships at DSM Resolve and Erik Ritzen for helping me in the lab during that time. This secondment gave me an opportunity to see better the company life and to obtain good results that I included in this thesis.
In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to my colleagues from the HYPERformance projec: Peter, Henrik, Anna and Andrea for your support and help.
Henrik, separate thanks for organizing an amazing trip to Iceland, and of course for your help
with some HPLC tests! With a special mention to Arto Heiskanen and Jenny Emnéus from DTU Nanotech. It was fantastic to have an opportunity to work in your facilities. My pressure-resistant chip would not be able to be without our collaboration on such a short notice. A very special gratitude goes out to Bert Wouters, who helped me in the crucial step of my PhD, namely to assemble a chip. Without your help, I would not make it so fast.
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My lovely artistic friend Viktoria, from the moment you entered my office I recognized a real Ukrainian soul in you. I am so happy than we have met and now sharing so many things together! I hope our friendship will grow throughout the years and we will have more art exhibitions together, more stories to tell and more great valuable time.
Nashwa, my colleague and my friends, that is amazing that we finally met (not at the
faculty, not at the salsa parties but in the middle of nowhere, in Ter Apel). You was giving me strength and positive vibe to continue balancing between work, PhD thesis and Dutch. Thank you so much for this! And thank you becoming my paranimph, we are a very good team! I am sure the connection we have will stay our whole lives!
____________ To my scientific family Спасибо моей семье за то, что всегда направляли меня в нужном направлении. Де, всегда, когда я тебя слушала, все получалось как надо и имело огромный вклад в будущее. Ба, ты всегда так переживаешь за меня, и я никогда не хочу тебя расстраивать, потому всегда очень стараюсь достичь большего. Мама, спасибо что отпустила меня к моей мечте. ____________
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But the most important, only two people in this world have seen what was happening “behind the scenes” of my PhD. First person is you, Andrew. I would never heard about Groningen if not you. You always helped me with study, science and with private problems. Too bad we were more than friends. But we learnt so much on the way, even moving in the wrong direction. Thank you for all you did for me and thank you for being next to me when my life was a mess.
And of course you, Remi. Thank you for appearing in my life in time, when I needed someone to be on my side, somebody who actually wanted to be with me in good and bad times, who «shares my dreams, I hope that someday I'll share a home”. You have seen me struggling with writing this PhD thesis and always supported me. I am so grateful to have you in my life. Love you.
