Short CV

Current positions

• 2026–presentChair, Statistics group, University of Twente
• 2025–presentAssociate Professor of Mathematical Statistics, University of Twente
• 2025–presentResearcher, Machine Learning group, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

Previous positions

• 2024–2025Assistant Professor, University of Twente
• 2022–2024Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 2021–2022Postdoctoral researcher, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and Inria Lille

Education

• 2021PhD in Mathematics, Leiden University & CWI
• 2016MSc Mathematics, cum laude, Leiden University
• 2014Master of Music, Classical Music – Horn, Royal Conservatoire The Hague

Selected grants and awards

• 2025NWO Open Competition M2, with Jelle Goeman (€742,708)
• 2025Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award in Mathematical Statistics
• 2023NWO Veni (€280,000)
• 2023Cor Baayen Early Career Researcher Award
• 2022Willem R. van Zwet Award
• 2021NWO Rubicon (€151,802)

Selected current roles

• Associate Editor, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B
• Member, Round Table Mathematics
• Member, PWN Commissie Onderzoek
• Member, EMS Young Academy and Young Academy Twente
• ELLIS member

Research areas

Mathematical statistics; e-values and anytime-valid inference; multiple testing; Bayesian learning; bandits and pure exploration; foundations of statistical inference.