Research positions

2020-present       Lector (scientist) at Aeres University of Applied Sciences Wageningen and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands

2017-2020            Post doctoral research associate at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Main project. Exploring and exploiting phytochemicals to lure hyperparasitoids away from beneficial biocontrol agents. TTW-funded, with Louise E.M. Vet)

2012-2017            Post doctoral research associate at the Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

Main project. Chemical signalling of malaria parasites: Call for transmission? (ZonMW-funded, with Willem Takken)

2007-2011            Post doctoral research associate at Evolutionary Genetics, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Main project. Sex determination in Cotesia: integrating genetics and behaviour. (personal grant: ALW-VENI / with Leo W. Beukeboom)

2004-2007            Post doctoral research associate at the Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA.

Main project. Evolution of gregarious development in parasitoid wasps: the role of sex determination mechanism. (NSF-funded, with George Heimpel)

 

Education

1999-2004            Ph.D. at the Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands (Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences)

Thesis-title. Bugs in odour space: How predatory mites respond to variation in herbivore-induced plant volatiles

Promotors. Dr. M. Dicke (Wageningen University) & Dr. M.W. Sabelis (University of Amsterdam)

1994-1999            M.Sc. ‘cum laude’ (includes B.Sc.), Wageningen University, The Netherlands: Ecological Crop Protection