I am member of the ALICE Collaboration. The main purpose of ALICE is to study the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions delivereded by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). The focus of my research is the study of heavy-quarks in-medium energy loss and hadronization. In the period 2014-2017 I served as coordinator of the ALICE D2H group (charm to hadronic decays studies) and from 2017 to 2019 I served as convener of the ALICE heavy-flavour physics working group. At present I am the Dutch project leader of the ALICE tracker upgrade and I am coordinating the Dutch efforts toward the proposal of a new detector for LHC run V (2030). 

I am actively involved in the teaching and outreach. My teaching at the university covers both the bachelor and master program. For the outreach part I am coordinator of the Hisparc project for the Utrecht region, I follow last year high school students during their final project and I teach in mastercalsses.