Positions and degrees

09/2012 – Present

Group leader (Prof.)

Utrecht University, Molecular mechanisms of intercellular signalling

07/2011 – 08/2012

Junior principal investigator

Utrecht University, Molecular mechanisms of neuropilin-semaphorin-plexin axon guidance signalling

07/2008 – 06/2011

Postdoctoral fellow

University of Oxford, Structural and biophysical analyses of semaphorin-plexin axon guidance signalling

04/2007 – 06/2008

Postdoctoral researcher

Utrecht University, Structural studies on the complement convertase complexes

09/2007

PhD

Structural biology at Utrecht University, title: Conformational Complexity of Complement Component C3 (cum laude)

10/2002 – 03/2007

PhD candidate

Utrecht University, Conformational Complexity of Complement Component C3

07/2000 – 06/2002

MSc

Molecular Sciences at Wageningen University, focus on biochemistry and structural biology

09/1997 – 06/2000

BSc

Molecular Sciences at Wageningen University, focus on chemistry and biochemistry

Awards and selected grants

• VICI grant from NWO (2023)
• ERC starting grant (2015)
• VIDI starting independent researcher grant from NWO (2012)
• PUG prize, for best thesis in the past five years from the Faculties of Science and Geosciences at Utrecht University (2011)
• Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Long-Term Fellowship (2009)
• Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship (2009) (awarded but not used)
• Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, January 2009-June 2011
• HGK Westenbrink prize, for best thesis in biochemistry and molecular biology in the year 2007-2008 in the Netherlands awarded by the Netherlands Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Ph.D. awarded cum laude (highest possible grade, top 5%)
• IUCr Journals Prize for best poster, 38th Course, Structure and function of large molecular assemblies, Erice Italy, 2006
• Best Ph.D. Student, Bijvoet Graduate School for Biomolecular Chemistry, Utrecht NL, 2006

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