I’ve always been passionate about science and science communication. In fact, my first-ever show and tell in primary school was on the fauna of the Galapagos Islands. I studied biology in Utrecht, the Netherlands, specializing in the behavioral ecology of Old World monkeys and social insects, doing fieldwork in Indonesia, Costa Rica, and Trinidad and Tobago. In 2000, after my Master’s, I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, to the research group of Prof Koos Boomsma, to pursue a doctorate on the evolutionary ecology of fungus-growing ants. Next, I spent one year (2006) as a postdoc in the laboratory of Prof Ehab Abouheif at McGill University, studying the ontogeny of worker castes in ants. In 2007, I was awarded an EU Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship to study social genomics in fire ants in the group of Prof Laurent Keller in Lausanne, Switzerland, where I stayed five years. In 2012, I was able to fulfill my long-standing ambition to become a science writer and communicator, working at the Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers. Here, I promote newsworthy science to the media, through press release and social media. My press releases have been picked up by top-quality media outlets, such as BBC, Washington Post, New York Times, Time, The Guardian, Science Magazine, and Christian Science Monitor.