Associate professor
2021-present Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Division of Human Nutrition and Health
January 2021
November 2017
Research group leader, Associate professor
2017-present Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Management: research group leader of the Nutrition & Lifestyle group, Principal investigator for nutrition, lifestyle and obesity data in the Generation R and Rotterdam Study
Research: The role of nutrition and lifestyle in health and disease throughout the life course
Teaching: Nutrition & Health; Global public health; Epidemiology
Other: Scientific integrity officer dept of Epidemiology; Coordinator of the master research projects dept of Epidemiology
October 2015
Postdoctoral scientist
2015-2017 Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Research: Nutrition and cardiometabolic health throughout the life course
Teaching: Global public health; Maternal & child health; Lifestyle & non-communicable diseases
Other: Scientific integrity officer Department of Epidemiology
June 2015
Postdoctoral scientist
2015-2016 Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, U.S.A.
Seven-month research visit for a project on dietary patterns, inflammation, and type 2 diabetes at the Department of Nutrition
February 2015
Visiting researcher
2015 Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland
One-month research visit for a collaborative project on maternal diet and breast milk quality
January 2015
Dutch Academy of Nutrition Sciences (NAV)
2015-2019 Board member of young-NAV (Nederlandse Academie van Voedingswetenschappen), the Dutch Academy of Nutrition Sciences
August 2014
MSc Health Sciences
2012-2014 Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES), Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Specialization: Epidemiology
May 2012
PhD Epidemiology
2012-2015 Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Research: Nutrition in early life and child body composition and cardiometabolic health.
Teaching: Global public health; Maternal & child health
Other: Organization weekly seminars at the department of Epidemiology
September 2011
Nutrition scientist
2011-2012 Unilever Research and Development, Vlaardingen, the Netherlands
Main research focus: phytosterols and cholesterol
October 2010
Visiting scholar
2010-2011 University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
In vitro and animal studies on the regulation of lipolysis, at the Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology, as part of a research internship in Metabolism & Nutrigenomics