2009 - 2011

     Master of Science (MSc) chemistry, Utrecht University

     Literature study at the Van't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry,

     ‘Preparations and properties of colloidal cubes’

     Internship at the Biological and Soft Systems Group in the Cavendish Laboratory,

     Cambridge University, ‘Building a dynamic light scattering setup to study dense

     colloidal systems’

     Master thesis at the Van't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry,

     ‘Fluorescent Magnetic Microspheres as a MRI contrast agent’

2006 - 2009

     Bachelor of Science (BSc) chemistry, Utrecht University

     Bachelor thesis in the Condensed Matter and Interfaces in the Ornstein Laboratory,

     Utrecht University, ‘Temperature dependence of exciton lifetime in anisotropic

     CdTe/CdSe heteronanocrystals’

2005 - 2006

     Sabbatical year

     Scouting board, voluntary work in France, Germany and Latvia

1999 - 2005

     Voortgezet Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs, RSG Steenwijk

     (pre-university secondary education, high school)

Experiment

     Chemical synthesis, alternating gradient magnetometer (AGM), laser alignment,

     transmission electron microscopy (TEM), bulk rheology

Computer

     AutoCAD, C (basic), CS ChemDraw Pro, GAMESS-UK, iWork, LaTeX, Molden,

     MS Office, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python (basic), PyMOL, Windows/Macintosh

Languages

     Dutch (native language), English (good), French (basic), German (school level)

Hobbies

     Scouting, cooking, film, squash, dancing (Latin-American & ballroom)

PhD student, Technical University of Delft

     On the topic of the biofunctionalization of field-effect transistor (FET) sensors.

     Research performed in the section of Nano-Organic Chemistry (NOC) at the

     Faculty of Chemical Engineering in Delft.