Martine Mussies is an artistic researcher and autistic academic based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Gender and Diversity at Maastricht University, where she is writing her dissertation on The Cyborg Mermaid. Martine is also part of SCANNER, a research consortium aimed at closing the knowledge gap on sex differences in autistic traits. In her #KingAlfred project, she explores the online afterlives of King Alfred the Great. Martine is the founder of CEAL – the Centre for Enthusiasts of Asian Languages – in Utrecht, and the author of two books on neurodiversity: Inside the Autside (2023) and The Pictorialist (2025). Beyond academia, Martine is a musician, budoka, and visual artist. Her interdisciplinary interests include Asia Studies, autism, cyborgs, fan art and fanfiction, gaming, medievalisms, mermaids, music(ology), neuropsychology, karate, King Alfred, and science fiction. More at: www.martinemussies.nl
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