Ilija is a physics student at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where he has continued his education after his graduation from UWC Maastricht and subsequent gap year. Professionally, he is researching obscure properties of some materials for the benefit of the space industry and he hopes to eventually contribute to the human transition towards other worlds. Ilija enjoys long discussions with friends, walks in cities with solid urban planning, and all-you-can-eat restaurants. As a culinary enthusiast, he regularly tries to craft dishes from scratch, yet with limited success -- after all, to truly make something from scratch, you must first create the universe.