Education:

1984-1989  Undergraduate studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

1989-1994  PhD studies, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam and University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

Post doc / Group leader:

1994 (6 mths)    UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1994-1996         Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 

1997-2001           Charité, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany      

Positions:

2002-2005       Assistant Professor of Immunology (tenure track), Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.

2005- 2010       Assistant Professor of Immunology, Dept of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

2010 - present  Associate Professor of Immunology (since 2018: with right to promotion), Dept of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Since 2025      Head of research group T-cell tolerance (0.2 fte) at the Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy, Regensburg, Germany