CV

Current Positions

  • Max Planck Director (Oct 1, 2020 – Present, full time starting Jan 2021) Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching near Munich, Germany.
  • Affiliated Scientist, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands  (Aug 2019 – Present)

Research Positions

  • Associate Professor (Aug 2019 – Dec 2020), Harvard University and Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Associate Professor with Tenure (June 2018 – Aug 2019), University of Amsterdam
    • PI of an ERC starting grant (2017-2019)
    • Vidi laureate (2018-now).
  • McGillavry Assistant Professor (Oct 2014 – May 2018), University of Amsterdam
    • Marie Curie Reintegration Research Fellow, University of Amsterdam (April 2015 – April 2017)
  • Einstein / Princeton Lyman Spitzer fellow at Carnegie Observatories and Visiting Scientist at Caltech (August 2013 – September 2014)
  • Hubble fellow at NASA’s Space Science Telescope Institute and the  Visiting Scientist Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (November 2010 -July 2013)
  • Argelander fellow at Bonn University, Germany  (June 2010- November 2010)
  • Intern student at Instituto d’Astrofysica de Canrias, Tenerife Spain (Summer 2004).

Education

  • Ph. D.,  Astrophysics, Utrecht University (April 2010, cum laude)
  • MSc. in Astrophysics, Utrecht University (August 2005 cum laude)
  • BSc. in Physics, Utrecht University (August 2005, cum laude)
  • BSc. in Applied Mathematics, Utrecht University (August 2005, cum laude)

Fellowships, Honors, Awards (selection)

  • 2020: Member of the Max Planck Society
  • 2019: Pastoor Smeits prize.
  • 2019: Elected as a member of the Dutch young academy of Sciences
  • 2018: Aspasia grant laureate, awarded by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
  • 2017: Vidi laureate, awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
  • 2017: MERAC prize in theoretical astrophysics, awarded by the European Astronomical Society
  • 2016: Beller Lectureship, awarded by the American Physical Society
  • 2016: ERC Starting grant, awarded by the European Research Council
  • 2016: Nominated among top 25 Dutch Research talent by NewScientist.nl
  • 2016: Top Grant, awarded by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
  • 2015: Marie Curie Fellowship, awarded by European Commission
  • 2014: MacGillavry Fellowship, awarded by University of Amsterdam
  • 2013: Einstein Fellowship, awarded by NASA
  • 2013: Lyman Spitzer Prize Fellowship, awarded by Princeton University
  • 2010: Hubble fellowship, awarded by NASA