Evelien Vaessen

Experience

• 

  Camping 't Hemelke

  May 2009 - Aug 2012

  Receptie/bediening/keuken

  All-round medewerker op een familiecamping

• 

  W.S.R Argo

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2014

  Several committees

  Secretary Argo Najaars Slotwedstrijden 2011 - organising a rowing event for ~400 people, responsible for volunteers and sponsoringAID planning Afroeicie 2012 - Organising the introduction days in Wageningen for rowing association W.S.R. ArgoTreasurer Argo Najaars Slotwedstrijden 2012 - organising a rowing event for ~400 people, responsible for budgetChairman Argo Sprint committee 2014 - Organising the 55th Argo Sprint, a national rowing event for ~1500 people.

• 

  Wageningen UR (University & Research centre)

  Sept 2013 - Feb 2015

  Verschillende werkzaamheden:2012: Computerpractica van het vak Statistiek 2 begeleiden.2013: Mentor voor eerstejaarsstudenten bij het vak Introductie Biotechnologie en Moleculaire Levenswetenschappen.2014: Organisatie van profielwerkstukdagen voor middelbare scholieren die geïnteresseerd zijn in het kweken van microalgen. Practica geven over DNA en de PCR-techniek aan 4/5/6 Vwo-leerlingen op verschillende scholen door het hele land.

  • Student-assistent

    Jan 2012 - Feb 2015

  • Mobiel practicum

    Sept 2013 - Oct 2013
• 

  IBET - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica

  Feb 2015 - Aug 2015

  Internship

  Upstream process development for production of Influenza virus-like particles.Experience with insect cell cultures, virus-like particles production, USP process development

• 

  Wageningen UR (University & Research centre)

  Oct 2015 - Dec 2015

  Education Assistant Transfer Processes
• 

  Food Process Engineering; Chair group of Wageningen University & Research

  Feb 2016 - May 2020

  PhD Candidate

  PhD project at the departments of Food Process Engineering and Food Microbiology. The project focuses on drying of bacteria (probiotics). Pulsed electric field is used as a pre-treatment with the aim to enhance robustness of the bacteria during the drying treatment and subsequent storage of the powder.During my PhD I was also involved in:- Supervision of twelve BSc and MSc thesis students-Teaching assistant in BSc course Food Microbiology and MSc course Transfer Processes-Member and chair of VLAG PhD councilThis PhD project is an ISPT project: https://ispt.eu/projects/probiotics/ Show less

• 

  FrieslandCampina

  Aug 2020 - now

  Ingredients - Precision fermentation for HMOs and proteinsManaging a team of six lab technicians and junior scientistsScientist involved in precision fermentation lab experiments, process improvement and scale-up, and regulatory dossier preparation for these ingredients produced by precision fermentation Ingredients - Early Life Nutrition departmentHands-on scientist roleProduction of HMOs (human milk oligosaccharides) by bacterial fermentationExperience with:-Lab scale bioreactor experiments -Scale up from lab to full scale fermentation process-Project management-Regulatory dossiers for novel ingredients in several regions Ingredients- Early Life NutritionNutritional Lipids team: product development of encapsulated lipids for infant formula

  • Team leader and Scientist Fermentation Lab

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Fermentation developer

    May 2021 - Oct 2023

  • Development Specialist

    Aug 2020 - May 2021