Education

2004, PhD (Dr. rer. biol. hum., summa cum laude), Medical School, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

1998, MSc (Dipl. Stat.), Statistics (specialization: Biometrics), University of Dortmund, Germany.

Work Experience

2015 – present, Associate professor, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

2012, Visiting assistant professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1 month).

2011 –2015, Assistant professor, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

2005 –2011, Post-doctoral research fellow, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

2004, Visiting scientist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Public and Environmental Health Research Unit, London, United Kingdom (2 weeks).

2002, Visiting scientist, Center of Perinatal, Pediatric, and Environmental Epidemiology, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (3 months).

1998 –2004, (Pre-doctoral) scientist at the GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health (today Helmholtz Zentrum München), Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany.

1998, Pre-doctoral scientist, Institute of Occupational Physiology at the University of Dortmund, Germany (10 months). 

Fellowships and awards

2015 - 2019: ASPASIA grant, The Dutch Research Council (NWO).
2012: Environmental Health Perspectives Reviewer of the Year.
2007 – 2010: VENI research fellowship, The Dutch Research Council (NWO).
2005: Doctoral students award (Doktorandenpreis) for the best doctoral thesis in 2004/2005, GSF – National Research Center for Environment and Health.
2005 – 2007: Post-doc research fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Editorial activities

• Associate Editor, Environmental Health Perspectives (2016-present).
• Editorial Review Board member, Environmental Health Perspectives (2013 - 2016).
   

Professional societies

• Member of the Review Committee of the Health Effects Institute (since 2022)
• Member of the Environment and Health Committee of the European Respiratory Society (since 2019)
• Member of the Goldsmith Award Committee of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (2017)
• Secretary (2017-2019) and member (since 2017) of the Capacity Building and Education Committee of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
• Elected member of the Executive Council of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (2016-2018) 
• Elected member of the Executive Council of the European Chapter of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (2014-2020)
• Member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE, since 2009)
• Member of the International Biometric Society (IBS, since 1998)