Active:
2026: science team member GLACE-NS: Late Cenozoic Glaciers, Landscapes, Climates, and Ecosystems of the North Sea, IODP3 Expedition 505
2026-: editor of Journal of Micropalaeontology (palynology) (Copernicus, open access)
2025-: co-chair of Scientific Liaison Panel of POLARIN, an international network of polar research infrastructures and their services aiming at addressing the scientific challenges of the polar regions. The task is ranking and funding of proposals for access to infrastructures and online access to scientific data and metadata to a single data portal for 7 data infrastructures, 2 observational networks and 10 research stations and their observatories.
2024-: ambassador for the Dept. Earth Sciences of the TRIPLE (Team spirit, Research, Impact, Professional Performance, Leadership, Education) model implemented at Utrecht University.
2024-: member of the National Ocean Decade Committee, consisting of independent ocean experts who will foster (inter)national collaboration within the UN Ocean Decade framework
2024-: chair of the committee for scheduling sea-going research expeditions with the Dutch Fleet
2023-: science team member of SWAIS2C Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 degrees Celsius, start drilling operation December 2023, ICDP funded project.
2021-: member of SCOR (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research) NL
2018-: Programme Leader of the Master Marine Sciences (Earth Sciences)
2016-: Committee member of The Micropaleontological Society
Past (most relevant):
2022-2026: member of the Science Advisory Group (SAG) of the ICDP (International Continental Scientific Drilling Program) and Land2Sea drilling.
2022-2026: member of the Programme Board of Pathways to Sustainability, UU, NL
2019 - 2026: editor-in-chief Journal of Micropalaeontology (Copernicus, open access)
2019-2024: board member of the UU-NIOZ collaboration
Board member of the "Water, Climate and Future Deltas" hub of the University of Utrecht
2022-2024: "quartermaster" Sustainable Ocean community, Pathways to Sustainability, UU, NL
2019-2020: editorial board of the Revue de Micropaleontologie (Elsevier)
2016 - 2019: editor of Journal of Micropalaeontology (palynology) (Copernicus, open access)
2013-2016 coordinator of the Geosciences honours seminar programme