Curriculum Vitae
| Degrees | |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Helmholtz Leadership Academy ‘Leading with Impact’ |
| 2011-2017 | Board certification as a Neurologist and Clinical Epidemiologist, Leiden University, the Netherlands |
| 2001-2011 | Medical doctor (with highest honours), Leiden University, the Netherlands |
| 2006-2010 | PhD degree (with highest honours), Leiden University & Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, the Netherlands |
| Major previous appointments | |
|---|---|
| since 2022 | Group Leader Population & Clinical Neuroepidemiology (tenured) |
| 2020-2022 | Group Leader Population & Clinical Neuroepidemiology (DZNE Career Development Fellow) |
| since 2019 | Consultant Neurologist, Department of Neurology, University Clinic Bonn, Germany |
| since 2018 | Epidemiologist/Data Scientist at DZNE |
| 2017-2018 | Consultant Neurologist/Senior Clinical Research Associate, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom |
| 2016-2017 | Marie-Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow at UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom & Clinical Fellow in neurogenetic and movement disorders (with Prof. Sarah J. Tabrizi and Prof. Kailash P. Bhatia) at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom |
| Activities in the Scientific Community / Professional Memberships | |
|---|---|
| since 2024 | Executive Committe of the European Huntington Disease Network |
| since 2022 | Member of the Adivsory Board of the International Society for Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| 2022-2024 | Chair of the Scientific and Bioethics Advisory Committee of the European Huntington Disease Network (Co-Chair: 2019-2022) |
| since 2011 | Member of the Dutch Neurological Association, the Dutch Epidemiological Association, the International Movement Disorders Society, and the European Huntington Diseae Network |
| 2013-2018 | Member of the scientific expert panel on neurodegenerative diseases for the journal ‘Neurodegenerative Disease Management’ |
| since 2010 | Ad hoc grant reviewer for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO/ZonMW), Stroke Association and Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), the French Foundation pour la Recherche Medicinale and the ”la Caixa” Health Research Foundation (Spain), as well as ad hoc reviewer for many scientific journals (including Annals of Neurology, Brain, Brain Pathology, British Medical Journal, Lancent Healthy Longevity, Molecular Psychiatry, Movement Disorders, Nature Aging, Nature Communications, Neurobiology of Disease, Neurobiology of Ageing, and Neurology) |
| Honors and Awards | |
|---|---|
| 2023 | InVirtuo 4.0-Grant, co-PI (Ministry of Culture & Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia) |
| 2021 | ERC Starting Grant (European Research Council) |
| 2019 | Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant (Alzheimer’s Association) |
| 2017 | Marie-Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship (European Union) |
| 2015 | Young Talent Award (Dutch Society for Neuroscience) |
| 2014 | VENI Award (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) |
| 2011 | Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Attendance Award (‘Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences’) |
| 2009 | World Congress on Huntington Disease Young Investigator Award (International Huntington Association) |
| 2005 | Leiden University’s Excellent Students & Honours Program (Leiden University, the Netherlands) |