Fangyuan Liu is an international PhD candidate in the Department of Developmental Psychology in the Social and Behavioural Sciences Faculty. She is from China and got the foundation from Chinese Scholarship Council. Her project focuses on the cross-cultural similarities and differences in children’s self-views, especially the modesty and boastfulness in the Netherlands and China. She

Jun Lyu is a PhD candidate in the Institute of Environmental biology in the faculty of science. He obtained his bachelor and master degree both in Microbiology from china, now he is focusing on Microbiology fermentation to make some innovative material from fungi to replace traditional plastic material. ? Our program: utrechtphdparty.nl/party-program? Our candidates: utrechtphdparty.nl/candidates

Tianrun Yang is a PhD candidate at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development in the Faculty of Geosciences. He holds a Bachelor in Energy and Environment System Engineering, a Bachelor in Finance and a Master in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics. His current research focus is sustainable energy transition. He is also working as the

Federico D’Ambrosio is a PhD candidate at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, with a background in Physics after his studies at Università degli Studi di Padova, in Italy. He is currently working on simulations of complex systems. After being active in the Italian students’ union and as a students’ representative, he has been a

Maranke Wieringa is a PhD Candidate at Utrecht University, and has a background in Cultural Studies and Media Studies, with a specialization in software and data. Her dissertation investigates algorithmic accountability in Dutch municipalities, and, following from this insight, Maranke develops a toolkit to empower municipal data professionals to give testimony of the (decisions around

Anne van Veen is a PhD candidate at the Freudenthal Institute, faculty of Natural Sciences. She first entered Utrecht University already in 2003 as a Social Science students, returned in 2010 for a masters at the Humanities department and came back again in 2016 for a PhD on the history of animal testing and alternatives

We are proud of presenting our lists with the help of PhD Network Utrecht – Prout and China-UU Scholar Association, just as diverse and enthusiastic as the university we’d like to see! In the next few days we will tell you about our candidates individually! First up: Lieke Schrijvers. Lieke Schrijvers is a PhD candidate in the Department