Data Station(s) Manager / Project Acquisition Officer

• Apr 2021 - Present

Main contact for researchers and research organisations looking for a safe and sound repository to share and store their researchdata in the domain of the Life, Health and Medical sciences as well as the Physical and Technical sciences. Also first point of contact for the users of the DANS Data Vault, our long term data repository. Next to my data responsibilities, I am also responsible for project acquisition at the national, European and international level.

Project Acquisition Officer / Liaison Officer Life & Environmental Sciences

• Sep 2020 - Mar 2021

Working in the research data expert team of DANS, one of Europe's leading scientific data repositories.

Project Acquisition Officer / Trainer Research Data Management

• Sep 2016 - Aug 2020

- Responsible for DANS project acquisition, > 1 m EURO on a yearly base- Liaison for Life and Environmental sciences- Coordinator projects on software sustainability, see: https://fair-software.eu- Trainer / coach Research Data Management: https://datasupport.researchdata.nl/en/

Teacher Biology (taster internship)

• Jan 2016 - May 2016

Learned that I like to teach, like to work with young people, that I love biology, but also that the conventional teaching system does not match with my need for creativity and innovation. Learned that I like to teach, like to work with young people, that I love biology, but also that the conventional teaching system does not match with my need for creativity and innovation.

External advisor data management

• Jan 2012 - Dec 2015

Advising the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) section on Life Sciences (ALW) on Data Management Planning for biodiversity related programmes. Advising the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) section on Life Sciences (ALW) on Data Management Planning for biodiversity related programmes.

Coordinator Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF)

• May 2005 - Dec 2015

Responsible for the set-up and consolidation of NLBIF, the Dutch national Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Major achievements: - Establishing a structural funding from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. - Building a technical and organisational network of over 30 Dutch biodiversity data providers. - Moving the Netherlands into the top-5 ranking of (international) biodiversity data providers (in 2016). - Acting as the Regional representative for Europe in the GBIF Nodes Steering Group (NSG). - Establishing collaborative projects with GBIF Ghana and GBIF Colombia.

Regional representative for Europe - GBIF Nodes Steering Group (NSG)

• Oct 2011 - Oct 2013

Project Manager European Network for Biodiversity Information (ENBI)

• Jan 2003 - Apr 2005

European 5th Framework project with 63 partners, promoting access to a European-wide pool of primary biodiversity data and expertise.

Staff member European project development

• Aug 2001 - Dec 2002

Contributing to the activities of Fauna Europaea, preparing the research proposal for the European Network for Biodiversity Information (ENBI).

Post doctoral research fellow

• Dec 1998 - Nov 2000

Post doctoral researcher (evolutionary biology, paleontology, geochemistry) with an individual EU Marie Curie fellowship. Post doctoral researcher (evolutionary biology, paleontology, geochemistry) with an individual EU Marie Curie fellowship.

PhD Researcher

• 1993 - 1998

Research in animal systematics, based on both Recent as well as fossil material. Collection and experimental work took place at the: - Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam (†) - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Italy - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Italy - Paläontologisches Museum München, Germany - Jura-Museum Eichstätt, Germany - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France - University of Bristol, UK - Natural History Museum London, UK

MSc Student

• Sep 1986 - Aug 1992

Specialisation aquatic ecology and ecotoxicology. Specialisation aquatic ecology and ecotoxicology.

Visiting Researcher

• Jan 1992 - Apr 1992

Monitoring morphological deformations in chironomid populations caused by chemical pollutants in the Yamuna River. Monitoring morphological deformations in chironomid populations caused by chemical pollutants in the Yamuna River.