Between two cultures

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Interview with ROA’s postdoctoral researcher Melline Somers in UMagazine

UMagazine / June 2022 - Photography Sem Shayne

  
She is renowned among her colleagues for her Thai snacks. For a work excursion she once made no fewer than 120 spring rolls. “With my mother’s help, otherwise it would’ve taken all night,” she laughs. She is the only child of a Thai mother and a Dutch father, and during her studies developed a love of Italian cuisine too. Melline Somers, a postdoctoral researcher at ROA, discusses life between two — or even three — cultures.

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