2021  -         Associate professor Palaeoecology, Department of Physical Geography

2019  -         Guest Researcher TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands

2012 -  2020 Assistant Professor Palaeoecology, Department of Physical Geography

2008 -  2012  Coordinator Geobiology team and project leader at TNO Petroleum Geosciences (Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research TNO).

2006 – 2008  Post-Doc researcher at Utrecht University (Palaeoecology, Institute of Environmental Biology). Projects  ‘Hurricanes and global change’ and ‘Stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental analysis of the Neogene in the subsurface of the Netherlands

2001-2005       PhD student at Utrecht University, thesis ‘Reconstruction of El Niño – Southern Oscillation variability during the Holocene’. Promotor Prof. dr. Henk Visscher, Co-promotor Dr. Friederike Wagner-Cremer