Curriculum Vitae

2009-now Communication specialist (TU/e)

As communication specialist of the Communication Expertise Centre of the Eindhoven University of Technology I am responsible for internal & external communication of the department of Biomedical Engineering. This includes PR, marketing, study education/information, website editing, social media, writing texts brochures/leaflets, alumni policy, design promotional tools (e.g. displays, photographs), giving lectures at secondary schools, development of workshops for pupils, deans and teachers, networking, conferences, press contacts, training of student PR teams etc.

2008-2009 Study information and student recruitment official (TU/e)

I recruited students for Biomedical Engineering. To do so I informed and rendered enthusiastic pupils, their parents, their teachers and deans about the Bachelor Biomedical Engineering.
Additionally, I contributed to the making and application of the communication policy

2003-2008 PhD dept. Multitrophic Interactions (NIOO-KNAW)

As a PhD-student at the Department of Multitrophic Interactions of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW in Heteren) I studied the genetical, chemical and ecological aspects of a glucosinolate polymorphism in Barbarea vulgaris (NWO-ALW grant no. 813.04.005).

• Promotors: Louise E.M. Vet and Wim H. van der Putten.
• Co-promotor/ daily supervisor: Nicole M. van Dam.

1999-2003 Student assistent Radboud University

As a student assistant I prepared practical work, explained experiments, reviewed student reports and critisized students of the following courses: "How to give a presentation" (2003), Ecophysiology of plants and animals (2003), Bioinformatics for chemists, biologists and molecular life scientists (2003) and "Biology and Society/Ehtics" (2003), Plantphysiology (2000), Microbiology (1999).

2009-2010 Communication & marketing, junior advisor (level B) Van der Hilst

1997-2003 Study Biology, Radboud University Msc student research projects:

• Regulation of the development of constitutive aerenchyma in Juncus effusus.
  Experimental plant ecology (RU, Eric Visser).
• Molecular regulation of angiosperm female gametophyte development; an EST-analysis.
  Plant cell biology (RU, Koen Weterings and C. Mariani).
• Effect of habitat on cashing of Brazil nuts (Bertholletia exelsa).
  Plant ecology (UU, Pieter Zuidema, Jacaranda van Rheenen and M. Werger) Field work: PROMAB, Bolivia (R. Boot).
• Microbial ecology ( = development of a course of the study biology at the RU).
  Microbiology (RU, Marc Strous and M. Jetten)