Education and work :
1982-1989: Mill Hill College (High School), Goirle, The Netherlands. Atheneum diploma: august 1989

1989-1995: University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Faculty of Health Sciences. B.Sc. Degree: January 1995

1995-1999: University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Ph.D. thesis study at the Department of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences (Prof. Dr. D. Hoekstra). Title Thesis: Transport and sorting of sphingolipids in polarized cells: the involvement of the sub-apical compartment. ISBN 90-367-1075-8. Ph.D. Degree (Cum Laude): May 26th 1999

1999-2001: University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco, U.S.A. Post-doctoral research at the laboratory of Prof. Dr. K. Mostov at the department of Anatomy.

2001- : Dutch Royal Academy of Science and Arts Fellow Researcher. University of Groningen. Department of membrane Cell Biology.

Awards and Fellowships :
1997: Max Gruber Award 1997.

1999: Long-term Fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Organization.

2001: Dutch Royal Academy of Science and Arts Fellow Researcher