| Citizenship: |
The Netherlands, Nationality: Dutch |
| Docerend Musicus | Conservatorium van Maastricht, music conservatory diploma , Maastricht, June 1996. |
| Dipl.-Math. (MSc) | RWTH Aachen, Faculty for Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Aachen, October 2000 (Analysis - Complex Function Theory). |
| PhD. (Dr) | Charles University Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, May 2004 (Computer Science - Numerical Linear Algebra). |
| Since June 2004 | Research fellow at the Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. |
| August 2006 - January 2007 | Member of project B17: ,,Improvement of the linear algebra kernel of Simplex-based LP- and MIP-solvers" of the DFG research center MATHEON, Berlin. |
| February 2007 - March 2007 | Member of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group ,,Principles and Applications of Krylov Subspace Methods for Large and Sparse Systems of Linear Equations" (Principal investigator: Joerg Liesen), TU Berlin . |
| August 1997 - September 2000 | (Teacher for the recorder at the Musikschule Herzogenrath, the music school of Herzogenrath, Germany.) |
| October 1998 - March 1999 | Student assistant of Prof. Schoenwaelder at the Lehrstuhl D fuer Mathematik , the Department D for Mathematics of the RWTH Aachen. |
| May 2005 | Lectures on Numerical Methods of Algebra on the Faculty of Mechatronics of the Technical University of Liberec (sitting in for Prof. Strakos). |
| February 2009 - May 2009 | Lecture Assistent of Zdenek Strakos for the course Numerical Linear Algebra on the Mathematical Physical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague . |
| February 2010 - May 2010 | Lecture Assistent of Zdenek Strakos for the course Numerical Linear Algebra on the Mathematical Physical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague . |