Academic background

Since 3/2010 Head, Section NMR, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht/The Netherlands.

Since 8/2008 Full Professor of Structural Biology, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht/The Netherlands.

4/2016-9/2019 Scientific Director, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht/The Netherlands.

2000/2008 Group leader (C3 / Associate Professor), Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen/Germany.
1999/2000 University Lecturer, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden/The Netherlands.
1997/1999 Postdoctoral research associate, MIT/Harvard Center of Magnetic Resonance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge/USA.
1994/1997 Ph.D./Postdoc studies, NSR Center of Molecular Structure, Design and Synthesis, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
1991/1996 Ph.D. student, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zentrum, Zurich/Switzerland. Research group of R.R. Ernst and B.H. Meier.
1991 Summer student, Princeton Lectures on biophysics, Princeton University, Princeton/USA.
1990/1991 Research Assistant and Diploma Student, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville/USA.
1986/1991 Study of Physics, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt/Germany.

Activities
Co-organizer international meeting on "Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance", Egmond aan Zee, 2015
Member of ERC Consolidator Grant Panel 2013-2019
Member of the Managing board of the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, UU
Member of ERC and VIDI advisory commissions (Life science), UU
2010-2015 Member and Chair, research advisory commission, Department of Chemistry, UU
Member of the 2015 VIDI review panel (NWO-CW)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board in Chemistry, Lorentz Center, Leiden.
Chairman & Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, 2015 PAC meeting of the Society of Dutch Chemistry students, Amsterdam.
Co-organizer of the 2013 Keystone symposium on "NMR in Biology".
Member, ICMRBS (International Council on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems) Founders Medal Selection Committee 2012.
Organizer of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the ITN on Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins, Soesterberg, NL.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2011 Euromar conference.
Member, Editorial Board, Biophysical Journal, 2008-2011.
Member, International Advisory Panel, 850 MHz UK solid-state NMR facility
Member, Scientific committee, 6th Alpine conference on solid-state NMR, 2009, Chamonix, France
Member, ICMRBS (International Council on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems) Founders Medal Selection Committee 2010.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Experimental NMR Conference (ENC), 2007-2013, USA
Member of the RCSB (PDB-BMRB) Task Group on NMR
Member of the executive committee, GdCh subgroup Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 2005-2008
Chairperson (with C. Griesinger),29th GdCh Annual Meeting, MR Division, Magnetic Resonance in Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen 2007
Chairperson Germany (with L. Frydman,Minerva-Gentner Symposium on Methodological Frontiers in Magnetic Resonance, Eilat 2005
Coorganizer, Ph.D. Seminar Series, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, 2000-2008

Stipends, Awards and Selected Grants

2015 NWO TOP-PUNT grant (with A. Bonvin)
2015 iNEXT, H2020 Infrastructure project.(with UU, NKI and international partners)
2014 Günther Laukien Prize awarded at the 55th ENC conference, Boston
2012 NWO National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Facilities grant (as coordinator of the national uNMR-NL consortium)
2011 NWO Vici grant
2010 NWO groot grant
2009 NWO middlegroot grant
2008 NWO Startup subsidy
2007 EBSA Prize of the Association of the European Biophysical Societies, awarded at the 6th EBSA conference, London
2006 Recipient of the Founders Medal of the International Council on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS) awarded at 22nd ICMRBS conference, Gottingen.
1997 Postdoctoral Research stipend of the DFG
1997 Stipend of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
1996 Ph.D. award, 18th GDCh-Fachgruppen Tagung NMR, Eichstaett, Germany
1992-94 Ph.D. research fellow of the Swiss Chemical Industry
1991 NEC travel Stipend, "Princeton Lectures on Biophysics"
1990 Graduate Research Assistantship DSRB Award, University of Florida

Memberships
AMPERE, KNCV, Biophysical Society