Scientific Career
2020 - present | Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2016 - 2020 | Postdoctoral researcher
Biological Mechanisms of Ageing (Linda Partridge), Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2013 - 2016 | Postdoctoral researcher
Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences (Eline Slagboom), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Education
2008 - 2014 | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Molecular Epidemiology cum laude
Title thesis: “Genetic and biomarker studies of human longevity”
Leiden University, The Netherlands
2006 - 2008 | Master of Science (MSc) in Biomedical Sciences
Leiden University, The Netherland
2003 - 2006 | Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biomedical Sciences
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Third-party funding
2022 - 2027 | ERC Starting Grant
2022 - 2026 | Longevity Impetus Grant