Education:

2003: PhD in Mathematics, Utrecht University. Advisors: Ferdinand Verhulst and Hans Duistermaat

1999: MSc/BSc in Mathematics, Utrecht University, cum laude

Faculty and postdoctoral positions:

2016 - ... : Full professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2014 - 2016: Associate professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2007 - 2014: Assistant professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2004 - 2007: Postdoc, Imperial College London

Visiting positions:

2023 (April - Jul): Sydney Mathematical Research Institute, International visitor

2020 (Feb - Jul): Sydney Mathematical Research Institute, International visitor

2013 (Mar - Apr): Georgia Institute of Technology, Visiting scholar

2010 (Jan - May): Boston University, Visiting scholar

2007 (Jan - May): MSRI Berkeley, Member of the semester program "Dynamical systems"

PhD students (as first advisor)

Wouter Hetebrij (2016 - 2021) Thesis link

Eddie Nijholt (2013 - 2017) Thesis link

Blaž Mramor (2008 - 2012) Thesis link

Grants and prizes

SMRI International visitor grant (8 kAUD), 2023

SMRI International visitor grant (12 kAUD), 2020

SIGEST outstanding paper award, awarded by SIAM for the article Center manifolds of coupled cell networks published in the SIAM J. Mathematical Analysis

NWO Vrije competitie grant "Variational methods for quasi-periodicity" (202 k€), 2009

NWO Veni grant "Hamiltonian lattice dynamical systems" (208 k€), 2007

MSRI Membership grant "Dynamical systems" (8 kUSD), 2007

EPSRC Postdoctoral fellowship grant "Geometry and near-integrability of Hamiltonian dynamical systems" (113 kGBP), 2004

Organisation of conferences and workshops:

Mini-symposium "Dynamics on and of networks" at Equadiff, Leiden (2019)

Organising committee of the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, USA (2017)

Emerging topics in network dynamical systems at the Lorentz Center (2017)

NDNS+ annual workshop at Twente University (2017)

Mini-symposium "Analysis of network dynamical systems" at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, USA (2015)

From topological to stochastic techniques in dynamical systems at the Lorentz Center (2014)

"An algebraic view of dynamics" in honor of Jan Sanders, Amsterdam (2014)

Mini-symposium "Bifurcations in coupled cell networks" at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, USA (2013)

From conservative dynamics to symplectic and contact topology at the Lorentz Center (2012)

Mini-symposium "Aubry-Mather theory" at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, USA (2011)

Symplectic techniques in conservative dynamics at the Lorentz Center (2010)

Hamiltonian lattice dynamical systems at the Lorentz Center (2007)

Workshop "Hamiltonian lattice dynamics", London Dynamical Systems Group, UK (2005)

Management:

Associate editor of the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

Board member of the Dutch Mathematics Cluster NDNS+

Member of the mathematics advisory board of the Lorentz Center

Editor for Epsilon Uitgaven, publisher of Dutch Mathematics books

Program director (opleidingsdirecteur) of the BSc and MSc Mathematics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2015 - 2019)

Member of the Management team of the Department of Mathematics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (since 2015)

Member of the steering board of Mastermath (2015 - 2017)

Chair of the Program committee (opleidingscommissie) of the BSc and MSc Mathematics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2012 - 2014)