Alba is a fourth-year mathematics PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her advisers, Renee Hoekzema and Thomas Rot, introduced her to the world of cutting and pasting and of science communication, respectively. While attending a workshop mentored by Nicos Starreveld, she decided to write this article, inspired by her own work together with Mona Merling, Ming Ng, Julia Semikina and Lucas Williams on
scissors congruence K-theory for equivariant manifolds. Whenever Alba is not doing maths, she might be knitting or playing the bagpipes.
