A bioethics explorer, that's what Angelina Souren calls herself these days. Among other things, she has previously served as board member for the Environmental Chemistry (and Toxicology) Section of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV), as member of board and several committees for a foundation for women in science and technology, as associate editor for the US-based Geochemical Society and as member of Portsmouth City Council's Portsmouth Environmental Forum. She started exploring topics like inequality, poverty, neurodiversity, personality disorders, neuroscience, bioethics, inclusivity - and its opposite, otherization - as well as speciesism but also stalking and extremism after she relocated from Southampton to Portsmouth in 2009, both in southern England. She then realized that she'd known two autistic people for decades. She'd always maintained that she didn't know a thing about autism and that she didn't know anyone who was autistic. She also discovered that her best friend of decades – a whitty, highly intelligent woman – had a narcissistic personality disorder. People who have this are often vilified. Angelina already wrote stories in primary school, was on her school's first newspaper team and already managed to get a letter published in a national magazine when she was still a teenager. It was about a play by G.B. Shaw. She later took two evening courses in journalism and PR, when she was wrapping up her Master’s. Angelina has since edited numerous scientific publications and grant proposals and penned snappier articles for geochemists and environmental chemists as well as for the print magazine Elements of global consultancy firm Arcadis. She is behind several science books in the Dutch "For Dummies" series (biology, astronomy, genetics, forensics, weather, chemistry). She’s published a bit of quirky flash fiction reminiscent of the style of Donald Barthelme and Spike Milligan as well as non-fiction. Other than in England, she’s lived in the US and in her native the Netherlands. She used to work in tourism and hospitality in Amsterdam prior to turning herself into a scientist. She quit her job, enrolled at university and graduated with a MSc – with distinction – and an additional diploma for chemical oceanography research. She's worked with and at universities in, mostly, the Netherlands, the UK and the US.