"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

My career so far brought me on different places and in different positions. However, the common denominator has always been that I was involved and managed creative processes in initiating, developing and executing plans for the future. In these processes I strongly focus on outcomes thereby am mainly results-oriented.

I'm an expert in education, research and innovation funding on a regional, national and European/ international level, an expert in knowledge transfer, an experienced project manager, policy advisor and last but not least now managing director of an institute.

Main achievements are the successful acquisition and management of (large-scale) regional, national, European and international collaborative projects for the different employers. Another major accomplishment was coordinating the internal reorganization of contract management at Maastricht University, resulted in the setup of the Contract Research Center.

Specialties are acquiring funding/ financial resources (proposal preparation), networking/ lobbying, public private partnerships, knowledge transfer, project management, strategy/ policy development and managing an institute. Over the years I have regularly trained bachelor/ master students, PhD students and research staff within the different disciplines in skills like writing a successful proposal, writing research proposals, pitching, patenting, entrepreneurship, etc.