I have been an independent researcher and consultant since December 2015. My clientele includes individuals, professionals, and organizations with questions about relationships, parenting, and divorce. See also Trikonfamilierecht.nl.
Since 2023, I have been an assistant professor of family law in the Department of Private Law and a researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law (ACT) at the University of Amsterdam. I teach courses in personal and family law, marital property law, and property law, and I supervise students on their theses. Starting in 2021, I served as an adjunct professor at the same university.
From 2021 until 2023 I was a senior researcher at the Dutch Whistleblowers Authority (Huis voor Klokkenluiders). I conducted investigations into wrongdoings within organisations or into the disadvantaging of employees due to reporting a wrongdoing, on the basis of the Dutch Whistleblowers Authority Act (that came into effect om 1 juli 2016). For that purpose I held interviews, analyses documents, judged requests of whistleblowers and wrote reports.
From 2019 until 2021 I was an assistant professor at the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law (family law) and the Research Center for European Research into Family (UCERF), Utrecht University.
From 2018 until 2019 I was a senior lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam and I taught Legal Skills, Law in Action, Introduction to Law and History of Law. Furthermore I was the program coordinator at the English bachelor study Law in Society.
From 2007 until 2017 I worked as a senior research fellow and lecturer at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
In 2016/2017 I was a member of the editorial board of the online divorce tool ‘Rechtwijzer uit Elkaar’. In 2013/2014 I was a member of the Dutch Parliament’s expertcommittee revising the legal system for child support after break ups.
In 2008 I obtained my PhD degree from Leiden University in Sociology of Law. My specialization is child- and spousal support after divorce. The subject of my thesis ‘rechters normeren de alimentatiehoogte’ is an intervention aiming to contribute to uniformity in judicial decision making. The research focusses on judicial guidelines for the calculation of child- and spousal support. The central question I address is: are the intended effects, such as equality before the law, being achieved? Simply put; does someone have to pay the same amount of alimony in Amsterdam as in The Hague in similar circumstances?
From 2005 until 2007 I worked as a research fellow and lecturer at Tilburg University. From 2001-2005 I was a Phd. Student at the University of Leiden in Leiden. Before I worked at the municipality Wormerland as a legal correspondent.
In 1999 I graduated from the University of Amsterdam. Within this period I studied Law at the University of Kent in Canterbury in the United Kingdom for nine Months. I have written a Master Thesis about H.L.A. Hart’s The Concept of Law (1961) in which I addressed his theory of the internal aspect of rules from a legal philosophical and sociological perspective.