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2021: Mid-Career Prize, American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrohysics Division

2020 - 2025: ERC Consolidator Grant AEONS

2019 - : Full Professor, University of Amsterdam

2016 - 2019: Universitair Hoofddocent UHD1 (Senior Associate Professor), Univeristy of Amsterdam

2015 - 2020: ERC Starting Grant CSINEUTRONSTAR

2010 - 2016: Universitair Hoofddocent UHD2 (Associate Professor) University of Amsterdam.

2010 - 2016: NWO Vidi Grant

2009 - 2010: Universitair Docent (Assistant Professor), University of Amsterdam.

2008 - 2009: Postdoctoral fellow, High Energy Astrophysics Group (Prof. M. van der Klis), University of Amsterdam

2005 - 2007: Postdoctoral fellow, High Energy Astrophysics Group, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching

2004 - 2005: National Research Council Resident Research Associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

2000 - 2004: Ph.D. (Mathematics), General Relativity Group, University of Southampton. Advisor: Prof. Nils Andersson. Thesis: "The dynamics of differentially rotating neutron stars"

1995 - 2000: Civil Servant (Science Fast Stream), Ministry of Defence, UK

1992 - 1995: BA (Hons) Physics, 1st class, Oxford University.