Angelina Souren’s CV

ANGELINA SOUREN

MOBILE: +31(0)6442x 667x / +44 (0)77 297x 597x | PUBLIC E-MAIL ADDRESS: angelinasouren@gmail.com

ORCID ID: 0009-0004-9287-8896

SUMMARY

I have an inquisitive nature and an American mindset, enjoy learning new things and prefer taking a positive approach. I am a take-charge person who does not shy away from responsibility, particularly in emergency situations.

SOFT SKILLS & EXPERTISE

Project management  •  Research  • Analysis  •  Organization  •  Perseverance  •  Providing guidance and coaching  •  Exploring cutting-edge developments and innovations  •  Strategic and critical thinking  •  Creative  •  Excellent language and writing skills  •  People skills

E X P E R I E N C E

SMARTERSCIENCE  |  NETHERLANDS  /  ENGLAND                                       

Scientific researcher / owner / versatile professional
1997 – 2023

I supported university scientists from a wide range of disciplines with their duties, with an emphasis on the earth, marine and environmental realm. I also worked with other parties that generate and/or apply scientific knowledge, such as international consultancies, educational publishers and various other small and large businesses. This included the following:

  • Carried out literature research and produced reports, often confidential.
  • Assisted with labs and field trips for graduate students; wrote teaching materials for graduate students.
  • Worked on research proposals (grant applications), books, reviews and other scientific publications.
  • Liaised, co-worked and outsourced as necessary and made sure I met bookkeeping and tax obligations.
  • Was part of the editorial team for the quarterly magazine “Elements” at Arcadis (Jan 2001 – Sept 2004).
  • Served as associate editor for the US-based Geochemical Society (Dec 1998 – Feb 2010).
  • Board member of the Environmental Chemistry (and Toxicology) Section of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV), co-organized symposiums, was in charge of newsletter, scientific yearbook and website (March 2001 – Sept 2004).

COVID  |  ENGLAND           

Volunteer during vaccination effort
2021

Online training and education
2020 – ongoing

As a volunteer steward at a local vaccination center (a medical practice), I provided information, guidance and instructions to patients. I attended online scientific meetings from the start of the pandemic, usually organized by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the American Public Health Association (APHA), as well as for example discussions about the role of health inequities, often organized by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Harvard Law School. See also following pages.

LEGAL  |  ENGLISH LAW    

Litigant in person (pro se)
Jan 2011 – Sept 2013
I reached a confidential settlement with the lawyers for two insurance companies

Between Sept 1997 and June 2001, I worked many evenings, nights and weekends, sometimes days, with top lawyers at Clifford Chance, mostly in the “English banking” department, mostly working on their usually very lengthy agreements. In 2015, I took an introductory course to contract law in the US (From Trust to Promise to Contract, taught by Harvard’s Charles Fried).

VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM, SCIENCE LIBRARY  |  NETHERLANDS           

Information specialist, part-time
Sept 1998 – Dec 1999

I replaced a geologist on a year’s sabbatical. I provided instruction for Earth Science graduate students and made decisions about book purchases and subscriptions to scientific journals in the fields of computer science, mathematics, philosophy of science, physics and astronomy. With two colleagues, I maintained the website. I also processed the remainder of the scientific collection donated by the discontinued Geological Institute at the University of Amsterdam.

LEIDEN UNIVERSITY  |  NETHERLANDS            

Guest researcher
Jan 1998 – May 1998

I became part of the Geobiochemistry group and convened a conference session at the AGU Spring Meeting in Boston.

STATE OF FLORIDA  |  UNITED STATES           

Graduate Research Assistant
Jan 1994 – Jan 1996

I carried out a great deal of literature research in marine biogeochemistry. I wrote a pre-proposal for ILZRO funding. I served as temporary lab manager and was involved in the purchase of an ICP-MS and other equipment for the brand-new lab. I also sometimes coached students; this was not part of my job description but I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, we lost our funding. In my spare time, I volunteered at a well-respected seabird rehabilitation center that cooperated with parties like NOAA.

E D U C A T I O N

VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM – DEPT OF EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES|  AMSTERDAM

Foundation course and MSc, Geology, with distinction
Sept 1984 – May 1993

Additional diploma for research in Chemical Oceanography, in conjunction with NIOZ
I did my Master’s thesis at VU University Amsterdam on the structural geology and geochemistry of the Precambrian Loftahammar area in Sweden. I also explored scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy and I looked into gender bias in sociobiology research. The work with NIOZ was on rare earths (a chemically distinct group of metals that shows somewhat similar behaviors as actinides, which are radioactive) in the ocean around Antarctica. I then did half a PhD in the US (University of South Florida, Marine Science; marine cerium anomaly, potential role of fungal enzymes; cerium is one of the rare earths) and half a PhD in the UK (NOC, University of Southampton; exchange of atmospheric iron at the sea-air interface and switching between metabolic pathways for cobalt and iron in marine cyanobacteria). (Offered paid fulltime role, but I chose self-employment and left.)

Activities during Master’s included the following:

  • Commission “Studium Generale” VU University Amsterdam
  • Commissions, board and organization of two symposium, NIMF Foundation for women in science and technology
  • Evening courses School for Journalism, Utrecht, Netherlands, with certificates
M E M B E R S H I P S
B I O E T H I C S  etc
  • 4 Aug 2024: Submitted “Disability: Impairment or enhancement, good or bad, harm or benefit?” to a law journal
  • 2024: Published an essay about poverty-related biases in household debt assistance in the Netherlands (ISBN: 979-8324065881)
  • 2023: Published a book about how otherization can lead to cruelty (ISBN: 9798871553510)
  • 2016 – 2023: Created online courses related to diversity challenges and wrote a book about “the new eugenics”, a bioethics topic (sparked by CRISPR and a course by the Petrie-Flom Center)
  • 27 June 2024: Is Gene Editing a Sustainable Food System Solution? A Bigger Conversation, online
  • 12 June 2024: Health Equity Day, Boston Globe, online
  • 14 May 2024: Does Fairtrade actually work? Freedom United, online
  • 22 April 2024 etc: Sustainability Week, Boston Globe, online
  • 12 April 2024: Why Film and TV? ELSI Research and the Public Imagination, ELSI Friday Forum, online
  • 1 April 2024: “When youth sue to protect the planet and their health: Inside a bold legal strategy to fight climate change”, Petrie-Flom Center and Harvard T.H. Chan school of public health, online
  • 1 April 2024: Abortion and Jewish law, Petrie-Flom Center, online
  • 29 March 2024: The Role of Courts in Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment: Lessons from Latin America, Petrie-Flom Center, online
  • 8 March 2024: The impact of Dobbs on emerging reproductive technologies, ELSI Friday Forum, online
  • 5 March 2024: In Science We Trust? Hastings-Knight Science Journalism Program with NYU bioethicist Lauren Taylor, journalist Nicholas St. Fleur of STAT News and scientist Christopher Reddy of WHOI’s Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, online
  • 26 February 2024 etc: Boston health and biotech week, Boston Globe, online.
  • 28 November 2023: ERC Annual Conference 2023, Research on Diversity & Diversity in Frontier Research, Brussels/online
  • 26 October 2023: Islam and bioethics, Columbia University School of Professional Studies, online.
  • 26 October 2023: “Green Industry Alternatives to the Coal Mine in Cumbria“, with Scientists for Global Responsibility. Online.
  • 28 September 2023: The future of bioethics, Columbia University, online. https://sps.columbia.edu/events/future-bioethics-challenges-visions-and-opportunities
  • 27 September 2023: Foundations of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory (part of the preparation of the new Oxford Handbook of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory), with Paul Apostolidis (London School of Economics), Peggy Kohn (University of Toronto), Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong), and Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbilt University), organized by VanderBilt University, online.
  • 27 July 2023: Examining the case of the Supreme Court vs. Ethics. Campaign Legal Center, online
  • 12 May 2023: Women’s experiences of policing: where do we go next? Fawcett Society, online
  • 9 May 2023: Follow the Money! Understanding the structural incentives for inequity in healthcare and beyond.
  • American Medical Association, online.
  • 31 March 2023: Boys online: Parenting against Internet Misogyny, Fawcett Society/Equal Play, online
  • 15 March 2023: Movement Lawyering and Abolition of Digital Policing – Another Tech is Possible?, Digital Freedom Fund, attended online
  • 11 February 2023: “Looking Back into the Future: CRISPR and Social Values”, University of Kent, online (with He Jiankui)
  • 10 February 2023: Indigenizing Genomics and Advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Hastings Center, online
  • 8 February 2023: Should We Change “Chimeric” Human-Animal Research? Hastings Center, online
  • 25 January 2023: Roundtable discussion: The Promise and Perils of Social and Behavioral Genomics, Hastings Center/National Human Genome Research Institute, online
  • 13 January 2023: Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics, Hastings Center, online
  • December 2022: Autism, Stress & Anxiety, online course module (National Autistic Society)
  • 7 December 2022: Open Seminar – The Voice of Autism: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives, online (Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex)
  • 28 September 2022: SCOTUS Watch: What the Upcoming Supreme Court Term Means for Democracy, online
    (Campaign Legal Center)
  • 21 September 2022: Grad Workshop – Borders and Belonging, online
    (The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy)
  • 19 July 2022: Broken Plate Report Launch 2022, online (Food Foundation, UK)
  • 23 June 2022: Algorithmic bias in healthcare AI: Scientific accuracy and social justice, online (Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values at University of Wollongong)
  • 16 June 2022: Contested decisions in healthcare, online (Oxford Uehiro Centre)
  • 15 June 2022: Authenticity and neurointerventions, online (Oxford Uehiro Centre)
  • 13 June 2022: Food Strategy snap analysis (Food Foundation)
  • 13 June 2022: Introduction to practical ethics, online (Oxford Uehiro Centre)
  • 7 June 2022: AI and National Security: Gender, Race, and Algorithms (Center for Naval Analyses)
  • 5 June 2022, catching up: Racism: The Ultimate Underlying Condition (AMA/APHA, 5 May 2022), A Path to Reproductive Justice: Research, Practice, and Policies (AMA/APHA, 14 July 2020) and Narrowing Health Disparities: One Health System’s Efforts Toward Equity for Underserved Populations (AMA/JACR, 26 May 2022)
  • 5 April 2022: Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
    (Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School)
  • 26 January 2022: The Third Year of COVID-19: Is This the New Normal? (APHA/NAM) (was not able to attend)
  • 19 and 20 January 2022: Health Equity Summit (Hastings Center – Health, Science, and Technology Ethics)
  • 1 September 2021: The Fourth Wave: Vaccines, Variants, and the Future (APHA/NAM) (was not able to attend)
  • 24 June 2021: State of London debate (info), online (Mayor of London)
  • 23 June 2021: A Tale of Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and Global Vaccine Equity (APHA/NAM) (was not able to attend)
  • 26 May 2021: Learning to Live with COVID-19 (APHA/NAM)
  • 25 May 2021: CLB Workshop on “The Art of Regulating ART” (Center for Law & the Biosciences at Stanford)
    (ART = assisted reproductive technology)
  • 11 May 2021: Medact Research Network meeting (Medact)
  • 26 April 2021: Urgent Briefing: Why We All Have a Duty to Kill The Bill (Medact)
  • 31 March 2021: Policing and the Brain: How Neuroscience Can Contribute to Police Reform (Petrie-Flom Center)
  • 17 March 2021: COVID-19 Conversations: Variants and Vaccines (APHA/NAM)
  • 9 March 2021: COVID-19 & Disability: A Holistic Examination of Pandemic Impact (Petrie-Flom Center)
  • 9 March 2021: A Crisis within a Crisis: Food Insecurity and Covid-19 (Food Foundation)
  • 3 March 2021: COVID-19 and the Law: The Disparate Burdens of COVID-19 (Petrie-Flom Center)
  • 12 February 2021: Medical Stereotypes: Confronting Racism and Disparities in US Health Care (Petrie-Flom Center)
  • 21 September 2020: Understanding the Role of Race in Health: A Moderated Discussion (Petrie-Flom Center)
  • 8 July 2020: “The societal impacts of introducing a public health identity system: legal, social and ethical issues”
    (Oxford Uehiro Centre, online)
  • 7 July 2020: Reopening Colleges and Universities During COVID-19: Keeping Students and Communities Healthy (APHA/NAM)
  • 10 June 2020: The Road to Immunity During COVID-19: Developing & Distributing a Vaccine (APHA/NAM)
  • 27 May 2020: Summer of COVID: Mitigating Direct and Indirect Impacts in the Coming Months (APHA/NAM)
  • 13 May 2020: Toward the ‘New Normal’ — Protecting Public Health as America Reopens (APHA/NAM)
  • 7 May 2020: Digital Digest: “Hostile Environment” measures and the Right to Food
    (Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming)
  • 29 April 2020: COVID-19 and Health Equity — Exploring Disparities and Long-Term Health Impacts (APHA/NAM)
  • 22 April 2020: Ethical Dilemmas in Mask and Equipment Shortages: Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    (Petrie-Flom Center)
  • 16 April 2020: A Panel on COVID-19 with Paul Farmer, Govind Persad and Allison Stanger (Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard)
  • 14 April 2020: Disability, COVID-19, and Triage: Exploring Resource Allocation and the Framing of Disability
    (Petrie-Flom Center)
  • 27 June 2019: State of London debate (info), on location in London (Mayor of London)
  • 10 April 2019: The neuroscience of hate, Rebecca Saxe (MIT), Petrie-Flom Center, online
  • 28 June 2018: Beyond Windrush: building the movement for migrants’ rights, on location in London (Migrants Organise, Liberty, Docs Not Cops, Global Justice Now, Walk and Talk Migrant Tours)
  • June 2018: Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences, training, LinkedIn
  • 1 June 2018: Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics (Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, on site)
    (registered, but unfortunately unable to attend)
  • 24 May 2018: 2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures (3/3): Illness And Attitude (registered, but unfortunately unable to attend)
  • 6 September 2016: Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics
    (Petrie-Flom Center course, taught by I. Glenn Cohen, online)
  • 2016: Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster (online course, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative)
  • 2015: Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract, course, HarvardX, taught by Charles Fried (89%)
  • 25 February 2015: “In or Out in the European Convention on Human Rights?” by LSE professor Conor Gearty (Café Jurist organized by School of Law at the University of Portsmouth and supported by law firm Coffin Mew)
  • 2014: Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy and the Press (online course, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs)
  • 2010: “Taking the Lead”, NCFE-accredited advanced learners course in community leadership
    sponsored by Portsmouth City Council
E A R L I E R  W O R K S H O P S  etc
  • July 2008: Dezineforce “The future of design” Business Seminar, University of Southampton. (Solent Synergy & Dezineforce sharing the insights of Simon Cox of the University of Southampton and Director of the Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing; focused on marine companies)
  • October 2007: Genomics – From humans to the environment – J Craig Venter, Distinguished Public Lecture, Oxford, UK
  • Sept 2005: Training women to win, workshop, University of Surrey, UK
  • June 2004: FP6 Priority 6.3 (Global Change and Ecosystems), information session SenterNovem, Utrecht
  • May 2004: Basistraining KP6, SenterNovem/EG Liaison (later EiOI) , The Hague
  • May 2004: Zapping through cultures, workshop at Berenschot, Utrecht
  • March 2004: “Samen bouwen aan innovatie” (Innovatiesubsidie Samenwerkingsprojecten), Senter, The Hague
  • May 2003: Millipore seminar
  • April 2003: “Bèta boeiend in beeld”, symposium, University Groningen
  • March 2003: SOLAS workshop, KNAW, Amsterdam
  • November 2002: Panel member at symposium Netwerk van Informaticae, Mathematicae en Fysicae
  • Sept 2002: Post-doc course Speciation and Bioavailability, SENSE research school, WUR
  • June 2002: SCOR Ironages meeting, KNAW, Amsterdam
  • 2002: SCAR meeting (Antarctica) KNAW, Amsterdam
  • Summer 2001: The Mineral-Water Interface – Macroscopic and Spectroscopic Approaches, workshop taught by Laurent Charlet (Grenoble-Alpes) at Utrecht University
  • 2000: Goldschmidt 2000, Oxford, UK
  • Fall 1999: Presentation at third Progress in Chemical Oceanography meeting (PICO-III), sponsored by The Challenger Society for Marine Science, the Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences in Plymouth and the AstraZeneca Brixham Environmental Laboratory. Took place at University of Plymouth, UK.
    (Combined with interviewing Keith O’Nions, Oxford, for Geochemical Society.)
  • Summer 1999: “Hoorcolleges geven” (teaching skills), course, VU University Amsterdam
  • Summer 1999: Invited to speak at 7th International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium in Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong. I was unable to attend, but sent an abstract.
  • 1998: Convened session at AGU Spring Meeting, Boston, US (role of fungi in marine biogeochemical cycles)
  • 1994: Basic Training Course ICP-MS Theory and Operation, Fisons, on-site, US
    I also completed the required training for dealing with radioactive materials (later repeated in the UK).
  • 1991: Poster presentation at EPOS symposium, AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany
    (also presented at Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven)

G R A N T S
O L D E R P U B L I C A T I O N S
  • Various items for Dutch environmental chemists and toxicologists, for women in science and technology, for Dutch geologists and, of course, for worldwide staff at Arcadis, for example about the Biowatch program (DHS, early detection of possible acts of bioterrorism in the US, launched in 2003), a biogas plant in Brazil, remediation of pollution as well as river engineering projects
  • Several interviews and other articles for geochemists in The Geochemical News
  • 2000: Living with cyanide, The Geochemical News, 105
    (about the environmental and analytical chemistry of cyanide, quoted worldwide)
  • 1998: Comment on ‘‘Oxidation of cobalt and manganese in seawater via a common microbially catalyzed pathway’’ by J. W. Moffett and J. Ho, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Jan 1998, 62(2):351-355.
    (published with response from J. Moffett and comment by B. Tebo)
  • Older Dutch items in newspapers and magazines, not science-related (some were on gender-based violence)
M I S C E L L A N E O U S
  • VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM  |  NETHERLANDS
    Dec 1992 – May 1993, 1996

Served as secretary to the PIs at Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry and Pharmacochemistry

I also briefly temped here after my return from the US. I mostly worked with professors Timmerman, Vermeulen, Velthorst and Brinkman and in addition with others (mostly Gooijer, Vreuls and Lingeman).

  • IT etc  |  NETHERLANDS
    Dec 1992 – May 1993, 1996

Among other things, I temped at IT company Ideta BV (where I supported mostly HEMA staff, also sometimes Praxis and Bijenkorf staff) in July and August 1992. I have also worked at its parent company’s holding (KBB Koninklijke Bijenkorf Beheer NV, which included HEMA, Praxis, Bijenkorf and FAO Schwartz). I worked at an Ernst & Young trust company in the months before my move to the US. After my return from the US, I briefly temped at IT company Verity, twice. During my Master’s, like most people, I held all sorts of part-time jobs.

  • CREST HOTEL AMSTERDAM  |  NETHERLANDS       

Receptionist, cashier, front office manager
Jan 1981 – Sept 1984

This later became Holiday Inn De Boelelaan. This too, like my work at the Tourist Office, required flexibility, good people skills and the use of several languages. The guests could be groups of people forced to stay over because of delayed flights, visitors at conferences at the nearby RAI center, guests at various nearby businesses, basketball teams, jazz musicians playing at North Sea Jazz, chess players participating in tournaments, people teaching or taking courses, such as CFPA, and foreign tourists. After I enrolled at university, I still helped out here from time to time in 1985 and 1986.

  • TOURIST OFFICE AMSTERDAM  |  NETHERLANDS  

Information specialist
Jan 1980 – Oct 1980

This was a position for the tourist season, in which I interacted with a great number of domestic and foreign tourists, requiring flexibility, excellent people skills and the use of several languages.

(Prior to this, I took a semester of German language and literature at the University of Leiden, but that was clearly not my future. My parents had little more than primary school and I had to find my own way. In 1983, I had myself tested extensively for strengths, weaknesses and interests to determine what direction to go in.)

PS

Note: It goes without saying that this CV does not include that for example I temped at the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture or delivered the Dutch Financial Times for a while, that I did brief bouts of telesales and street sales, or that I stacked shelves at Dirk for a few years during my Master’s. There are many stints like that in my past because there wasn’t really anyone to fall back on financially for me throughout my life. I wasn’t wealthy and there were challenges, but I did fine, learned a lot and had a lot of freedom, too – until I moved from Southampton to Portsmouth.