Since 2022: Full professor land, climate and sustainability at the Radboud Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University

2020 - 2022: Associate professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University

2012 - 2020: Assistant professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University

2011- 2012: Senior researcher/Postdoc at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University

2006-2011: PhD candidate / junior researcher at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University; focusing on bioenergy production on degraded and marginal land

2004-2006: Master of Science in Sustainable Development (Track Energy & Resources) at Utrecht University; graduated with cum laude

2002-2004: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Environmental Science at Tulane University (New Orleans, LA, USA) graduated cum laude   
(1999 - 2001: Majoring in Mathematics and Environmental Science at University of North Carolina at Asheville (Asheville, NC, USA))