Michiel was trained as a medical doctor (2002) and pediatrician (2010) and as a clinical epidemiologist (2009) at the UMC Utrecht. In 2011 he obtained his PhD on his thesis entitled: RSV Bronchiolitis in Healthy Term Infants, Pathogenesis and Prediction. Since 2010 he works as a general pediatrician in the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital (UMC Utrecht) and since 2014 he is head of the section of general en social pediatrics. He is the pediatrician and coordinator of the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome childhood outward patient clinic and studies the heterogeneity and prognostic factors of this syndrome, in close collaboration with colleagues of other pediatric, surgery, psychiatric, psychology and genetics specialties. He is also involved in several further studies on the healthy term birth (amniotic fluid) cohort from his PhD trajectory.

• 2011-12 PhD Curriculum of Training Upcoming Leaders in Pediatric Science (TULIPS), competitive selection

• 2011 NVK Masterclass, Prof Dr B Prakken, Prof Dr HJ Verkade, competitive selection

• 2007 NVK Young Investigators, award best poster presentation

• 2005 ESPID Fellowship Award

• 2000 UMC Utrecht Students’ Scientific meeting, 2nd price for oral presentation

• 1992 Theoretical Mathematics Olympiads, team competition, national winner

• 1992 Applied Mathematics Olympiads, team competition, national winner