Education and Research
2019-2021 Postdoctoral researcher, ETH Zürich
Paleogeographic reconstruction of plate boundary zones: analyzing the role of plate tectonically driven habitat changes on extant biodiversity
2014-2019 PhD, Utrecht University, cum laude
Thesis: Reconstructing lost plates of the Panthalassa Ocean
2013-2014 Junior Lecturer, Utrecht University
2011-2013 MSc Geology, Utrecht University, cum laude
Thesis: Kinematic reconstruction of the Caribbean region since the Early Jurassic
2007-2011 BSc Earth Sciences, Utrecht University
Awards and grants
12/2018 ETH Zürich postdoctoral fellowship
12/2017 Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA), AGU Fall meeting 2017
12/2016 Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA), AGU Fall meeting 2016
05/2014 Escher Prize for best Dutch Earth Scientific MSc thesis 2013
Invited presentations
01/2021 MagIC workshop (online)
Reconstructing plate motions of subducted oceanic plates using paleomagnetic data from subduction complexes – with examples from Japan, New Zealand, Mexico and Costa Rica
06/2019 University of Montpellier
The complex tectonic history of the Caribbean Plate – a journey from Jurassic formation at the Farallon-Phoenix ridge via Cretaceous subduction initiation and an Eocene plate boundary reorganization towards the modern intra-Americas setting.
12/2017 AGU Fall meeting, New Orleans
Absolute plate motion control since the Triassic from the Cocos slab and its associated subduction record in Mexico
09/2017 Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
Quantitative kinematic reconstruction of lost oceanic plates – Unraveling the tectonic history of the Panthalassa Ocean
09/2016 GSA2016, Denver
Eocene northern Caribbean plate boundary reorganization: regionally or globally forced?