Personal grants

• 2019: Vici grant "fluid spintronics"
• 2016: ERC CoG "spin transport beyond electrons"
• 2008: ERC StG "new frontiers of spintronics"
• 2007: Vidi grant "antiferromagnetic metal spintronics"

Professional career

• 08/2019-present Full professor at Utrecht University on the chair "Theory of Nanoscale Systems".
• 03/2016-present part-time professor ("deeltijd hoogleraar") at Eindhoven University of Technology on the chair "Theory for spin-based nanoelectronics".
• 12/2012-07/2019 "Universitair Hoofddocent" (Dutch equivalent of Associate Prof.) at Utrecht University.
• 3/2008-11/2012 "Universitair Docent" (Dutch equivalent of Assist. Prof.) at Utrecht University.
• 9/2006-2/2008 "Junior Universitair Docent" (Dutch equivalent of Assist. Prof.) at Utrecht University.
• 1/2004-8/2006 Post-doctoral fellow in the condensed-matter theory group of Prof. dr. A.H. MacDonald at The University of Texas at Austin.
• 11/1999-12/2003 Research Assistant (AIO) at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Education

• October 27, 2003 Ph. D. in theoretical physics (cum laude) at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
  Thesis title: Atom-Molecule Coherence in Bose Gases
  Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. H.T.C. Stoof
• 1999 Master's degree in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
  Thesis title: Mappings and Simulations of the Repton Model and the Six-vertex Model
  Supervisor: Dr. G.T. Barkema
• 1994 VWO-diploma, Christelijke Scholengemeenschap "De Lage Waard", Papendrecht, The Netherlands.