273 A Curriculum vitae CURRICULUM VITAE Lieke Vrouenraets was born on July 24th, 1989 in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. After graduating from the Stedelijk Gymnasium in ’s-Hertogenbosch in 2007, shemoved to Leiden to study at Leiden University. During her bachelor’s degree Psychology (propedeuse cum laude) she attended the Honours Class ‘Human aging: from brain to society’. Subsequently she started her master in Child & Adolescent Psychology at the same university. During this master’s degree program she did a research and clinical internship at LUMC-Curium, the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC). Throughout this clinical internship she gained experience in the healthcare for transgender children and adolescents and children and adolescents with psychiatric problems. During her studies she worked among others as a counsellor for children and adolescents with developmental disabilities (Inzowijs). Despite that her initial interest after graduating was in clinical work, she ‘succumbed’ to the inspiring words of Prof. Dr. Martine de Vries, Prof. Dr. Henriëtte Delemarre-van de Waal†, and Dr. Miranda Fredriks to start doing scientific research. This led in 2013 to the combination of clinical work in the gender treatment team at LUMC-Curium, with doing qualitative research regarding the controversies surrounding the treatment with puberty suppression for transgender minors at the LUMC. This period, which lasted a year and a half, further fuelled her interest in combining clinical- and research work regarding the healthcare for transgender children and adolescents. She expanded the research project by undertaking a parttime PhD at the LUMC, focusing on the ethical dilemmas & decisionmaking in the healthcare for transgender minors under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Martine de Vries, Dr. Annelou de Vries (Amsterdam UMC), and Dr. Irma Hein (Amsterdam UMC). To obtain the data for the studies described in this thesis, she also worked as a researcher within the gender treatment team of Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Location VUmc. Besides the PhD she continued doing clinical work at the gender treatment team at LUMC-Curium. In 2018 she received a research grant from the ‘Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Seksualiteit’ (FWOS) to continue her PhD project. Besides the clinical work she did at the gender treatment team between 2014 and 2022, she also worked with children and adolescentswithpsychiatric problems. Shedid this at Curium-LUMCand theneighbourhood health centre for minors and their families. In addition, during this period she also contributed to research regarding the effectiveness of a blended cognitive behavioural therapy program for children and adolescents with an anxiety disorder (‘Dappere Kat’), in collaboration with among others the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Besides
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