Katrien is a sociologist with a master’s degree in Gender Studies. She’s been working in Africa and Europe, both as a researcher at the University of Antwerp and currently as an independent Gender Consultant. Katrien also has a passion for astronomy, is an astrophotographer, and volunteers in her local astronomy club. The main focus of her work is gender, equal opportunities and diversity. She is involved in all sorts of projects to make the world a more diverse and tolerant place where people are treated as equals. As such, she hopes to contribute to ensuring that gender stereotypes will not be replicated in space. Her main artistic expression in life is photography. She contributed to exhibitions of both daytime and nighttime pictures.