After highschool in Enschede I studied Biology in Groningen (class of 1996). During my masters I focused on Immunology and Cancer Biology, with a touch of human behaviour, metabolic disorders and physiology. In 2001 I started a PhD-project at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Pinedo-Group) on the effects of anticancer agents on cell motility in tumors. During my PhD I got infected by an education-virus, so I ended up as a teacher in Leeuwarden (Noordelijke Hogeschool). In the meantime, we decided that Twente is by far the best part of the Netherlands to build a family life. Consequently, I was lucky to become a highschool teamleader and biologyteacher in Haaksbergen. Via my work for the department of Pre-University of the UT I ended up as a cellbiology and biochemistry teacher at the department of DBE and AST of this great university.
Organisations
Research profiles
Lecturer:
- BMT Module 1 Biochemistry, Project
- BMT Module 2 Cell Biology
- BMT Module 5 Applied Cell Biology
- BMT Module 11 Recap Cell Biology
- TG Module 1 Biochemistry and Cell Biology
- Mastercourse Biochemistry
- Mastercourse Clinical Biotechnology
- Honours-module Manhattan Project
Tutor:
- BMT Module 2
- BMT Module 5
- BMT Module 11
- Mastercourse Biochemistry
Practical Trainer:
- BMT Module 2
- BMT Module 5
- BMT Module 11
- TG Module 1
- TG Module 11
- Introduction to Bio-Engineering Technologies
- Mastercourse Applied Cell Biology
- Mastercourse Biomaterials
Module Coordinator:
- BMT Module 1
- TG Module 11
Miscellaneous:
- Guest-lectures for Pre-University
- Guest-performances for Marketing & Communication
- Staff-Member of Biomedical Technology
- Member of Curriculum-committee Technical Medicine
- Head of the BMT-workgroup "Self-Responsible Learning"
- Student-internship assessor
- Specialized Study-adviser (how to study, bridging gaps between high school and university)
- Contacts with high school (teachers, students)
- BMT Teacher of the Year 2021, 2022
Affiliated study programs
Courses academic year 2025/2026
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses academic year 2024/2025
- 193640999 - Internship BME
- 201600273 - Clinical Biotechnology
- 202400221 - Project: Construction with Molecules
- 202400222 - Chemical Biology
- 202400223 - Biochemistry
- 202400224 - Anatomy
- 202400229 - Project: Microscopic Detection of Cancer
- 202400231 - Cell Biology
- 202400255 - Project: Creating Biological Tissues
- 202400257 - Applied Cell Biology
- 202400310 - Nanoparticle Cell Interactions
- 202400311 - Cell-Material Interactions
- 202400453 - Patient Case: Technical Medicine
- 202400456 - Cell Biology and Biochemistry
- 202400532 - Project: Biomaterials
- 202400533 - Applied Cell Biology
- 202400534 - Ethics
- 202400535 - Communication and Prof. Behaviour 3
- 202400641 - Biochemistry
Courses academic year 2023/2024
- 193740050 - Biochemistry
- 201600273 - Clinical Biotechnology
- 202000839 - M2 Microscopische detectie van kanker
- 202000845 - M5 Creating Biological Tissues
- 202001293 - Manhattan Project
- 202200150 - M1 Building Blocks of the Human Body
- 202300097 - M1 Mol. Constr. of the Human Body
- 202300245 - M11 Bioengineering Technologies
- 202300263 - M11 Biomaterials

Address

University of Twente
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room ZH128
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands
University of Twente
Horst Complex ZH128
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
Netherlands