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