{"id":324,"date":"2013-07-25T21:43:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T21:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lapsedordinary.net\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:52:35","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am Martijn Grooten, a Dutch passport holder based in Europe. I currently work as a consultant on digital security on various projects and am also engaged in pro-bono work supporting vulnerable groups and people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Between 2007 and 2019, I worked at Virus Bulletin<\/a> in the United Kingdom, where I was web developer, anti-spam test director and most recently Editor. I organized the annual Virus Bulletin Conference<\/a>, a leading global threat intelligence event, and oversaw the company’s product testing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before that, I worked as a junior researcher in pure mathematics (algebraic geometry) at the Radboud University<\/a> in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. I published one scientific paper<\/a>. I hold an M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the same university. My M.Sc. thesis was awarded the University Prize in 2002. I was a student member of the faculty council for one year and both secretary and chair of the students’ association for mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my free time, I enjoy running, cooking and reading<\/a> (literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry). I care about social justice and civil liberties. In both my work and my life, I support the guiding principles<\/a> of Kim Crayton’s #AntiRacistEconomist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About my name<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to popular belief, the ‘j’ in my first name isn’t there for decoration. The ‘ij’ is actually a Dutch digraph<\/a> and my first name more or less rhymes to wine in English, with the emphasis on the second syllable. The ‘g’ in my surname is guttural<\/a>, but the most important thing is that the ‘oo’ is like the ‘oa’ in boat, not like the ‘oo’ in boot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here<\/a> is an mp3 of me pronouncing my own name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Email is the best way to reach me: martijn at lapsedordinary.net. I use various messaging apps including Signal, WhatsApp and Wire (contact me through another channel for details) and also accept messages on Twitter<\/a> or LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am Martijn Grooten, a Dutch passport holder based in Europe. I currently work as a consultant on digital security on various projects and am also engaged in pro-bono work supporting vulnerable groups and people. Between 2007 and 2019, I worked at Virus Bulletin in the United Kingdom, where I was web developer, anti-spam test […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}