Professional Experience
| Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory at the University of California, Berkeley |
2005-present |
| Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University | 2002-2005 |
| Graduate research astronomy, Leiden University | 1998-2002 |
| Undergraduate research astronomy, Utrecht University | 1997-1998 |
Education
| Doctor of Philosophy, Astronomy, Leiden University | Dec 2002 |
| Bachelor/Masters of Philosophy, Astronomy, Utrecht University Subsidiary subject theoretical physics, graduated with highest honors |
Apr 1998 |
Teaching and Public Outreach
| Supervision undergraduate and graduate students' research projects | 2001-present |
| Lecturer interstellar medium summer school, Naramata | Aug 2007 |
| Given over 20 public lectures for non-astronomers about cosmic microwave background anisotropies, big bang theory and magnetic fields in the Milky Way, throughout the Netherlands | 1999-2001 |
| Member Dutch National Educational Committee of Astronomy | 1996-1997 |
| Member of Committee Public Outreach Leiden Observatory | 1998-2001 |
| Teaching of lab courses for students in natural sciences at Utrecht University; Responsible for supervision, grading and part of the contents |
1996-1997 |
Selected Presentations
| Invited talk, American Astronomical Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI | May 2007 |
| Invited colloquium, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV | May 2007 |
| Invited talk, conference The large scale magnetic field of the Milky Way, Princeton, NJ | April 2007 |
| Invited colloquium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Jan 2007 |
| Invited colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison | Jan 2007 |
| Invited presentation, conference Small scale ionized and neutral structures in the diffuse ISM, Socorro, NM | May 2006 |
| Invited colloquium, NRAO, Socorro, NM | Nov 2005 |
Additional skills
| Languages | Dutch: mothertongue |
| English: fluent | |
| French and German: reasonable, orally and written | |
| Computing | Working knowledge of Unix (including C-shell scripts), Linux, LaTeX, IDL, Fortran 77, astronomical data reduction packages (MIRIAD, NEWSTAR), data visualization software (Karma) |