[rolandog]

Thanks for the encouragement and sorry for my late reply!

Indeed. Chemical Engineer that has always loved programming + InfoSec to include it in some way, shape, or form on what I do...

I took a chance during Covid and was fortunate to land DevSecOps-y roles. Not a 10x engineer by any means, but I have been working my way through Knuth's TAoCP and slowly learning to love lower level.

Living now in the Netherlands, but didn't know that there were such types of benefits to studying a PhD.

I'll definitely need to have a good think (and budgetary assessments as well) ... having to pay rent in the Netherlands due to the (probably artificial) housing crisis feels like a seriously limiting factor to afford studying.