Academic Appointments
2022 – now: Chair of Soft Matter and Biological Physics
2020 – now: Associate Professor
2017 – 2020: Assistant Professor
Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
2016: Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professor
Coherent X-ray Scattering group, Centre for Ultrafast Imaging & DESY, Hamburg, Germany
2015 – 2017: Postdoctoral Scientist (Humboldt Fellow)
Institute for Theoretical Physics II, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Hartmut Löwen
2012 – 2015: Postdoctoral Scientist (Rubicon Fellow)
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, USA
Advisor: Prof. David R. Reichman
Education
2008 – 2012: PhD in Theoretical Chemistry (cum laude)
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Advisors: Prof. Ad van der Avoird and Prof. Gerrit C. Groenenboom
Visiting student in the group of Prof. Jeremy M. Hutson, Durham University, UK
2005 – 2008: MSc in Chemistry (summa cum laude)
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Major in Theoretical Chemistry, minor in Molecular and Laser Physics
Visiting student in the group of Prof. David C. Clary, University of Oxford, UK
2002 – 2005: BSc in Chemistry (cum laude)
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Grants, Awards, and Honors
Grants and Research Awards
EAISI EMDAIR grant (main PI) (2022)
eScience Center OpenSSI grant (main PI) (2021)
NWO Vidi grant (2020) [press release]
NWO ENW-GROOT grant (co-PI) (2020) [press release]
European ITN grant (co-PI) (2019)
NWO Projectruimte (2018) [press release]
NWO START-UP grant (2018) [press release]
DFG research grant (co-PI) (2018)
Humboldt Research fellowship (2016) [press release]
Mildred Dresselhaus Award / CUI Guest Professorship (2015/2016) [press release]
NWO Rubicon grant (2011) [press release]
Niels Stensen fellowship (2011)
Unilever Research Prize (2007)
Huygens Talent Scholarship (2006)
Presentation Awards
NTvN (Dutch Journal of Physics) 1st prize for best popular article on PhD research (2014) [pdf]
Best poster award, Postdoc Research and Career Symposium, Columbia University (2014)
Best oral presentation award, sIMMposium, Radboud University Nijmegen (2010)
Best poster award, NWO-CW meeting in Spectroscopy and Theory, Lunteren (2008)
Best poster award, NWO-CW meeting in Spectroscopy and Theory, Lunteren (2007)
Best poster award, KNCV poster competition, Utrecht (2007)
Honors
TU/e Groundbreaking Researcher Award nominee (2022)
Member of the TU/e Young Academy of Engineering (2021)
Elected as 1 of 10 new members of the KNAW Young Academy (2020)
Selected as 1 of 10 Dutch students to attend the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physics (2012)
Highest possible honors for BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees (each awarded to top <5%)