I study the role of machine representation of knowledge and hypothesis in life sciences, metabolomics, drug discovery, and toxicology, involving cheminformatics, chemometrics and semantic web technologies. In the past, I have applied research on this also to QSAR and crystallography. Open source programming and Open science is also my main hobby, resulting in participation in, amongst many others, Chemistry Development Kit, WikiPathways, Bioclipse, BridgeDb, and others.

Open Science policy and FAIR guidelines have been part of my work for more than 10 years. After a PhD and several post-doctoral positions in “big data” transcriptomics, my experience with handling data resulted in the development of the cBiT data repository, which shares biomaterial-based transcriptomics data. In my current position as a project leader at the MERLN Institute, I serve as data steward and coordinate MERLN’s data management activities in a strategy that embraces the FAIR guidelines.

I work as an assistant professor at Maastricht University, University College Venlo. My teaching and research are focused on psychology and nutrition, and specifically the psychology of eating. In my position I find it important to teach students about the replication crisis and the importance of good quality (open) science.

I am an Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminology and my research specialty is on art crime. I am currently the PI of an ERC-funded project looking at trafficking of antiquities, fossils, and collectable wildlife, and I am interested in exploring the adaptability of open science frameworks for complicated and sensitive social science fields such as my own. I hope to support colleagues in non-science disciplines to “open up” forms of data that they may not have considered sharing before.