Sept 2018 - Sept 2021 Director of education department of chemistry UU

April - July 2014  Sabbatical leave at Caltech Pasadena

2011 – 2013 Head department of chemistry at Utrecht University

2006 -  Full professor at the van't Hoff Laboratory, Utrecht University. Chair title: Self-organizing systems.

Sept 2005 - Feb 2006  Sabbatical leave at Dept. of Physics, New York   University

2004   NWO-VICI grant

1999 – 2006 Associate Professor (UHD) at the van't Hoff Laboratory, Utrecht University

1996 – 1999 Fellow with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW-Fellow)

1994 – 1996 Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Howard Reiss at the University of California,  Los Angeles (UCLA)

1989 – 1993 PhD in Physical Chemistry, Utrecht University. Thesis: 'Interfacial properties and phase behaviour of an ionic microemulsion system'

1985 – 1989 MSc in Chemical Thermodynamics at Utrecht University.