Susanne Veluw

Susanne van Veluw grew up in The Netherlands as the youngest daughter in a family of five. Her dad is a theologian and became a pastor in the Dutch reformed church when she was a kid, so she has been at the ‘other end’ of pastoral search committees a few times herself! After graduating from college (Amsterdam) and obtaining her PhD in neuroscience (Utrecht), she moved to Boston in 2015 for a post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Earlier this year, she joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and now leads her own research group of young scientists. They are eager to better understand and eventually treat a brain disease called ‘cerebral amyloid angiopathy’ (ask her about it after church, and she’ll tell you everything you want to know!). Since she moved here five years ago, she has attended CTK Cambridge, which has become a warm home away from home.

Education

• Master's degree Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) (2009 — 2011)
• Bachelor's degree University of Amsterdam (2005 — 2009)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (2020)
• Guest Researcher Leiden University Medical Center (2019)
• Instructor in Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital (2019 — 2020)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Massachusetts General Hospital (2015 — 2019)
• PhD candidate UMC Utrecht (2011 — 2015)
• Visiting Research Fellow Massachusetts General Hospital (2014 — 2015)
• Visiting Research Fellow National University of Singapore (2014 — 2014)
• Visiting MSc student University of Oxford (2011 — 2011)