As the Research Support Officer of the Department of Geoscience & Engineering, my current main task is to provide funding advise. I am the linking pin to the Innovation & Impact Centre, other Corporate Offices, and Delft (Urban) Energy. Over the last 15+ years of working at TU Delft, I have been involved in a large variety of activities (see below).

I am a member of the Associations of Research Managers and Administers in the Netherlands (ARMA-NL), and active in its working group for Professional Development of Grant Advisors. I also regularly join events of the European organisation EARMA.

For my CV, see my LinkedIn profile.

Previous activities include

• Coordinator of TU Delft’s input for the Parliamentary inquiry commission on the gas extraction in Groningen: collection of documents and data and their analysis (2021)
• As a member of the project team, I contributed to the “Kennis-Innovatie-Agenda Ontwerp en management van geïntegreerde duurzame warmtesystemen” (2018)
• Quarter master and Programme manager of the TU Delft Platform on Thermal Energy Systems, a platform under the Delft Energy Initiative (2017-2019)
• Supporting the Set-up of the GSE research theme Geothermal Science and Engineering (2017-2018)
• Development of a Minor on social-economic and geo-political aspects of Geo-resources (2016-2017)
• Initiator and Chair of the Working Group on Global Development of the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) (2015-2017)
• Co-initiator of TU Delft | Global Initiative and its advisor for student projects, funding, and coordinator of network activities (2014-2016)
• Secretaris of the CEG Faculty Selection Committee for the Delft Technology Fellowship (2014)
• Member of the supervisory body of the university magazine Delta (2013-2017)
• Coordinator of the proposal for the Dutch membership of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) and Secretary of ICDP-NL (2010-2016); I received the 2016 ICDP-NL Person of the Year Award
• Secretary of the Research School Centre for Technical Geosciences (CTG) (2007-2015)
• Initiator and theme leader Social Impact of the Delft Research-based Initiative on Environment (2013-2014, was followed up by TU Delft | Global Initiative)
• Coordinator of the Colloquium series SPARKS of the Department (2007-2011)
• Change Agent on diversity issues at the Faculty (2007-2011)
• I joined a Travel into Sustainability, in the frame work of the 165th anniversary of TU Delft (2007)
• Coordinating the Smart Fields research programmes ISAPP and Recovery Factory (2006-2015)
• Secretary of the Science Committee of the Department (2006-2011)
• Secretary of the TU Delft Research Centre Delft Earth (2006-2010)

Before I joined TU Delft, I was a researcher in the field of marine geochemistry at Utrecht University (postdoc) and at GEOMAR (PhD student), studying pore water of deep-sea sediments and mud volcanoes.

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