2013 – now

Assistant Professor (Tenured)
University Utrecht, Department of Biology, Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics

2012 – 2013

Postdoctoral research, supported by NWO through a‘VENI’ grant
Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Bionanoscience
VENI project: ‘Stochastic models of evolution driven by spatial heterogeneity’

2009 – 2012

Postdoctoral research with Prof. Terence Hwa
University of California San Diego, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics

Projects:

1. Speed, sensitivity and bimodality in transcriptional response networks

2. Physiology of bacterial cells growing on mixed substrates

3. Evolution in heterogeneous environments

2004 – 2008

Doctoral Research with Prof. Pieter Rein ten Wolde
FOM-institute AMOLF and Free University (VU), Amsterdam

Projects:

1. Principles and mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in prokaryotes

2. Organization and evolution of genome organization