First person – Veer Keizer

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Veer Keizer is first author on ‘Repetitive switching between DNA-binding modes enables target finding by the glucocorticoid receptor’, published in JCS. Veer conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Marcel Schaaf's lab at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Antoine Coulon at Institut Curie, Paris, France, focused on interdisciplinary research combining biology, physics and chemistry to develop new tools to understand the dynamics of essential processes in live cells.