<p>I'm a postdoc with a passion for restoring and substituting the senses.</p>
<p>My profile picture is M.C. Escher's <a href="https://www.escherinhetpaleis.nl/escher-today/butterflies/?lang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>Vlinders</em></a> (1950). It is one of his works with <em>tessellations</em>, in which certain shapes fill up the entire surface. It is combined with another important theme in his oeuvre, namely <em>transformation</em>, where one shape slowly evolves into the next. Escher's works are illusionary master pieces that trick our visual systems in perceiving things that cannot be.</p>
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<p><em>Behind the great achievements of a <a href="http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/men/gauss.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Gauss</a> or an <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Einstein</a> is in all cases a life devoted to contemplation, curiosity, collaboration and, perhaps most of all, hard work.</em><br />
<sub>(<a href="http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v313/n3/full/scientificamerican0915-82.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Burrell, D. <em>Sci Am</em>, September 2015</a>).</sub></p>
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<p><sub>For what it's worth: My name is not Alice, my last name starts with an 'S', I'm a bloke and, like Escher, I just like to toy with people's perceptions :) Just say 'AliceD' out loud and likely you'll get some acid associations</sub></p>

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