Trained in Biology, University of Utrecht (Utrecht, NL) (BS) and in microbial ecology and risk assessment, Wageningen University (Wageningen, NL), worked at RIKILT – Institute for Food Safety (Wageningen, NL, 2007-2010), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM, NL, 2010-)10-) where I am head (2016-) of Department Epidemiology and Surveillance of Gastroenteritis and Zoonoses.
My research mainly focus on:
- Genomics for public health, surveillance and outbreak management
- Epidemiology of gastrointestinal pathogens, tick-borne pathogens and AMR
Role in Syst-OMICS
In collaboration with France daigle, I’m involved in Activity 1.4 which aims to assess survival, pathogenicity and virulence gene expression of Salmonella in a simulated gastrointestinal model. This is performed by Dr. Lucas Wijnands at the RIVM centre for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology. My role is the coupling to genomics and epidemiology.