Academic Training

1972 – 1985
Chemistry M.Sc. (cum laude), University of Leiden, The Netherlands

1979 – 1982
Chemistry B.Sc., University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Postgraduate positions

2001 – 2017
Full professor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

1996 – 2000
Associate professor, Laboratory for Physiological Chemistry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

1991 – 1996
Assistant professor, Laboratory for Physiological Chemistry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

1990 – 1991
Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. P.A. Sharp (1993 Nobel laureate in Medicine), Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Selected Honors and Awards

2017
EMBO member

2017
Academia Europaea member

2016 – 2018
Editor, Molecular and Cellular Biology

2010 – 2016
Organizer EMBL meeting of Transcription and Chromatin

2010
Organizer Keystone symposia, Big Sky, USA

2009 – 2015
Editor, The Journal of Biological Chemistry

2007
Organizer UNIA workshop, Baeza, Spain

2003 – 2012
Theme Leader of the Netherlands Proteomics Center

2001 – 2003
Instructor Summer Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories

1998
Pionier grant Medical Sciences NWO, The Netherlands

1997
Invitation for group leader, EMBL Grenoble, France; declined

1991 – 1996
Fellowship of the Royal Society for Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands

1990 – 1991
NATO post-doctoral fellowship

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