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Rosanne Yente Hertzberger (Rotterdam, 1984) is a former politician, microbiologist and writer. She is active on LinkedIn. Currently she is the director of the “Wetenschappelijk Bureau NSC“, this is the thinktank affiliated with the political party Nieuw Sociaal Contract.
From December 2023 to November 2023 she was a member of parliament for Nieuw Sociaal Contract.
From 2009 to 2023 she wrote a weekly column for Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad.
She started the Crispatus foundation (Dutch) in which a women’s research collective of citizen scientists develops a vaginal probioticum with Lactobacillus crispatus-bacteria.
From 2017 to 2023 she studied metabolism of vaginal lactic acid bacteria in the Systems Biology Lab within the department of A-Life at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, together with Professor Remco Kort. Publications and all other scientific output can be found at Researchgate, Pubmed, FigShare ORCID 0000-0002-6119-9450.
Previously she did a postdoc at the molecular microbiology department of Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri, USA). She did her PhD at Swammerdam Institute of Life Science, University of Amsterdam. She studied Life science & Technology (BSc & MSc) at Leiden University and Technical University Delft.
She published two books (in Dutch) ‘Het Grote Niets – waarom we te veel vertrouwen hebben in de wetenschap’ (2019) and ‘Ode aan de E-nummers -Waarom e-nummers, kant-en-klaar-maaltijden en conserveermiddelen ons leven beter maken‘ (2017).
She started the @NL_wetenschap-Twitter account where researchers rotate to give insight into their work.
Find a complete list of the paid work she did for clients in the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.