Education:

September 2019 - January 2025

PhD Candidate at Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences

Project title: Volcanogenic phyto-toxic pollution during the end-Triassic mass-extinction

(Co-) promotors: prof. dr. Appy Sluijs, dr. Bas van de Schootbrugge

Funding: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)

September 2017 - August 2019

Master Earth, Life and Climate at Utrecht University

MSc thesis: Tropical climate dynamics across the onset of the Miocene Climatic Optimum: assessing premature surface warming in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean with implications for polar amplication factors

Supervisors: prof. dr. A. Sluijs (Utrecht University), dr. Francesca Sangiorgi (Utrecht University), dr. ir. Francien Peterse (Utrecht University)

September 2013 - August 2017

Bachelor Earth Sciences with a minor in Evolutionary Biology at Utrecht University

BSc thesis: Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate phase relations during the early Pleistocene: Inference from high-resolution oxygen isotope reconstructions of ODP Site 967 based on revised astronomically tuned timescales

Supervisors: prof. dr. Lucas Lourens (Utrecht University) and dr. Martin Ziegler (Utrecht University)

Experience:

September 2018 - March 2019

MSc research internship at Naturalis Biodiversity Centre

Project title: Studying Homo erectus Lifestyle and Location (SHeLL)

Research contribution: Sedimentological and palaeoclimatological assessment of the Trinil hominin site (East Java, Indonesia) based on stratigraphy and pedogenic carbonate clumped isotope thermometry 

Supervisors: prof. dr. Josephine Joordens (Naturalis Biodiversity Centre/Free University Amsterdam/Maastricht University), dr. Martin Ziegler (Utrecht University)

Februari 2018 - July 2019

Research assistant in Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometry at Utrecht University (Bright Minds Fellowship)

Project discription: The major goal of the clumped isotope group at Utrecht is to accurately reconstruct past changes in temperature and paleoclimate variability. Providing accurate calibration and interlaboratory comparison makes clumped isotopes potentially the ideal method for deep-time paleoclimate research and to pin down accurate paleo-seawater temperatures and also make more precise estimates on polar ice volume and the sea-level in the past.

Project leader: dr. Martin Ziegler (Utrecht University)