• 2013-now: Assistant professor at Utrecht University, Department of Economic Geography (80%)

• 2010-2016: Researcher (postdoc) at the Vrije Universiteit, Department of Spatial Economics (80% until August 2013, 20% since September 2013, guest researcher since July 2016)

• 2006-2010: PhD researcher (‘aio’) at the Vrije Universiteit, Department of Spatial Economics (100%)

• 2005-2012: full-time, from 2006 part-time freelance database designer for the Interreg IIIB-IVB "North Sea" Programme; co-developed “Spatial Vision for the North Sea Region” in 2005.

• 2002 and 2004: internships at the Interreg IIIB North Sea Programme Secretariat, Viborg (DK), the section Housing Market Research at Arcadis, Apeldoorn, and at the municipality of Hoogezand-Sappemeer.

Education

• Sept-Dec 2011: Vrije Universiteit: Basisopleiding Universitair Docent

• September 2010: Vrije Universiteit: PhD in Economics, thesis “Agglomeration and Innovation: Evidence from Dutch Microdata”

•  March 2003: Dutch Institute in Rome, research for thesis in geography

•  April 2002: Dutch Institute in Rome, course in Ancient History

•  2000-2001: Università degli Studi di Verona, Facoltà di Lettere (Erasmus grant)

• 1997-June 2004: University of Groningen: M.Sc. in Human Geography, graduated cum laude (demography, planning, GIS; economic, rural and cultural geography)

• 1997-Nov 2007: University of Groningen: M.A. in Classics (Latin, Greek, archaeology, ancient history; ‘minors’ in history of architecture, Italian language, musicology)