Curriculum vitae

Esther Krijnen- de Bruin was born on July 2nd 1989 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. After completing her secondary education at De Passie in Utrecht, she had a gap year, doing voluntary work in Kenya. In 2011 she completed her bachelor’s degree in nursing at Christelijke Hogeschool Ede. From 2011 to 2012 she was a nursing trainee at the department of child and youth psychiatry and at the department for patients with (early) psychosis at UMC Utrecht, and she kept working as a psychiatric nurse until 2015. In addition, she studied Health Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam, with the specialization ‘Prevention and Public Health’. In 2014 she obtained her master’s degree. From 2015 to 2016 she worked as a Clinical Trial Assistant at Julius Clinical in Zeist. In 2016 she started working as a PhD student at GGZ inGeest/Department of Psychiatry of the Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, also affiliated with Inholland University of Applied Sciences. Her research has been embedded in the ‘Academische Werkplaats Angst’ and focused on relapse prevention for patients with remitted anxiety and depressive disorders. In 2021 she started to work as a lecturer in scientific training at Inholland University of Applied Sciences, in which she also focuses on the development of ‘Leer- en innovatienetwerken’ in mental health care, networks in which science, practice and education is connected.