CV
Academic experience
| May 2024 - 2027 | Veni research fellow (Postdoc) Utrecht University, The Netherlands Deltas as a record of ancient hydrological conditions on Mars |
| May 2021 - April 2024 | Internal research fellow (Postdoc) European Space Agency (ESA|ESTEC), The Netherlands Martian Deltas: Reconstruction of paleohydrological activity and clay deposits by numerical modelling |
| 2020-2021 | NWO Rubicon fellow (Postdoc) California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA Martian Deltas: Identifying paleohydrological activity and clay deposits on Mars by delta reconstruction |
| 2015-2019 | PhD candidate Utrecht University, The Netherlands Thesis: Morphodynamics and sedimentology of estuaries with sand and mud. |
| 2012-2014 | Master Earth, Surface and Water (cum laude) Coastal Dynamics and Fluvial Systems track Utrecht University, The Netherlands Thesis: Debris flows on Mars: An experimental analysis |
| 2009-2012 | Bachelor Earth Sciences Utrecht University, The Netherlands Thesis: Crater lake flooding as indicator for paleoclimate conditions on Mars |
Other work experience
| 2021-now | Participant Rover Science Operations Working Group (RSOWG) & Rover Science Operations Simulations Meetings on science objectives, planning and simulated decision making related to the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover. |
| 2021-2024 | Faculty Council member at ESA Tasks include reviewing faculty research proposals, judging visitor funding requests and organising a science workshop for internal staff. The aim is to foster a productive scientific environment in the directerate of science. |
| 2019-2020 | Sciece video producer at Utrecht University Developed 12 outreach videos of about 3 minutes. Tasks included script writing, filming, animating, video editing, audio editing, publishing and creating web graphics in relation to the Brunings Lectures. |
| 2016-2019 | Member/chair PhD committee Physical Geography, Utrecht University Organising social activities and regular meetings in which we addressed PhD-related issues, like teaching tasks, courses and stress. Contact point between the department, graduateschool and PhD candidates. |
| 2014 | Internship Deltares Delft Developing an operational model of the region of fresh water influence (ROFI) near the Sand Engine and beta-testing Delft3D Flexible Mesh. |
| 2014 | Teaching assistant at Junior College Utrecht (JCU) Teaching module 'Hoog water in de rivier' (physics, mitigation strategies, physical experiments) to high school students to stimulate them to choose a carreer in STEM. |
| 2013-2014 | KNAW (lab) reasearch assistanthip at Utrecht University Experiments included the development of small-scale estuaries and debris flows in the lab and sensitivity analyses of the development of scour holes in different sediment types. |
| 2013 | Teaching assitant at Utrecht University Course River Morphodynamics |
| 2007-2018 | Volunteer KPJ/Doen Nederwetten Webmaster, activity organisator (all ages, 20-500 people), sport and play supervision (children 4 to 16), creating PR material. |
| 2006-2010 | Different part time jobs during education |
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Invited seminar speakers
- University of Nantes - 8 june 2023
Outreach activities
- To PhD or not to PhD - talk to master students at Utrecht University about my experience at ESA and as a PhD candidate and what to consider when choosing a PhD (16-02-2022).
- Brunings lecture - yearly event on estuaries that brings science, industry, consultancy and government together (14-01-2020). I developed short videos for different scientists of Utrecht University working on estuaries (bruningslecture.nl).
- Hackathon Duurzame Bodemligging Rijntakken - the ministry of infrastructure and environment conducted a MIRT-investigation to prevent continuous river bed erosion, supported by Arcadis. A brainstorm event was organised with 20-25 young, multidiciplinary professionals (10-2017).
- PABO-students meet scientists - students of the training teacher program at Hogeschool Utrecht were invited to ask question and look around different workplaces at the University (16-11-2017).
- Preparation and instruction of the minimetronome on Terschelling - several institutions on the island (staatsbosbeheer, rijkswaterstaat, primary schools, VMBO) constructed their own tidal flume. As a representative of Utrecht University I instructed teachers on doing experiments (03-05-2017).
- Development educational posters - 3 posters were developed for schools (primary, secondary or higher education) that develop their own flume for tidal experiments (05-2017).
- Tours at the Metronome facility - for example for primary school children (11-16-2016), the master introduction week (08-30-2016), students of the training teacher program at Hogeschool Utrecht (09-02-2016) and MBA studenten (06-12-2016).
- Guided river experiments - for students and parents during events like open days of the University or a parents day of Earth Sciences (04-18-2015). As a master student I teached 4 vwo (highschool) students of the Junior College Utrecht about river experiments.