My mission is to bring cutting-edge metabolic imaging technologies from the research lab into clinical application. My work sits at the intersection of MR physics, neuro-oncology, and metabolism, and is driven by the conviction that understanding altered metabolic pathways in the human brain will transform how we diagnose and treat neurological disease.

I have a background in biomedical engineering (UTwente) and during my PhD I specialized in MR spectroscopy (Radboud umc, Nijmegen). Trough personal research grants (NWO-VENI and WKZonderzoeksfonds) I was able to built my own research line in which I use various x-nuclei MR spectrscopy techniques (e.g., 31P MRSI, deuterium metabolic imaging, 13C-MRS) to study metabolism in various neurological pathologies.

2023     Co-applicant and WP-leader research grant from the Dutch NWO Perspectief program entitled ‘CHIME: Cerebral HemodynamIcs, Metabolism and clearancE: A comprehensive, non‐invasive brain imaging approach to characterize key biological processes in dementia’

2023     Rudolf Magnus Young Talent Fellowship ‘Identification of epileptogenic brain tissue using deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI)’

2022     Co-PI research grant Dutch cancer society (KWF), entitled: ‘Early detection of brain tumour progression with amide proton transfer weighted CEST MRI’

2021     Personal research grant from the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital Fund, entitled: ‘Exploring vascular and metabolic maturation of the preterm brain with 7T MRI’

2020     Personal research grant from the Dutch NWO Talent Programme (Veni), entitled: ‘No need to wait? Predicting brain cancer therapy response with metabolic MRI’