Anouk Post received an MSc. in Physics with the specialization Physics of Life and Health, at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, in 2013. Anouk Post obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam, for research she did on the development of Single Fiber Reflectance (SFR) spectroscopy as a diagnostic tool for cancer. Since 2018, Anouk is a postdoc at the Surgical Innovations Group at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. The main focus of her research is the development of optical techniques (using light) to improve cancer detection.