I studied Biomedical Sciences at VU University in Amsterdam and Medical Biology at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. During my graduate program, I spent time at the Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences working on the molecular profiling of monocyte tolerance in vitro and in vivo, with the aim of identifying therapeutic strategies for sepsis. Additionally, I spent time at the Boston Children’s Hospital in the US, where I worked on the regulation of fetal hemoglobin expression and developed a computational pipeline for the analysis of saturating dense mutagenesis CRISPR screens.

Currently, I am finishing my PhD in Quantitative Proteomics at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz, Germany. In my research, I focus on the computational analysis and interpretation of several large proteomic datasets to answer a wide range of biological questions, including gene regulatory non-coding SNPs in lymphoblastoids and the large-scale mapping of the DNA damage response in the ciliate Tetrahymena. My other interests include gene editing, integration and interpretation of large-scale (epi)genome and transcriptome data, as well as data visualization.