After being graduated from HBO-B Clinical Chemistry (1981), followed by Immunochemistry (1983), I started a position as (Research) Technician at the VU university medical center. In 1984, and parallel to my 40-hour job, I started my study physics and chemistry at the University of Amsterdam. In 1991 I graduated in physical and analytical chemistry and moved to Barcelona (Spain) for my PhD study at the CSIC. In 1995, I successfully defended my Thesis at the VU University, with prof. Udo Brinkman as my promotor. After my Postdoc, I started at the Contract Research Company PBR, as project manager bioanalysis and head of the LC-MSMS laboratory. In 1997, I switched gears, and became group and section leader/ research fellow at Organon, being fully involved in the discovery and development of new medicinal drugs. In 2010 I was invited to be a parttime professor at the VU University (Analytics in Drug Discovery) and shifted in September of the same year to the Dutch chemical company DSM. Here I was appointed Science Director at DSM resolve, a research department in analytical chemistry within the context of polymer chemistry and material sciences. I specialized in the field of biomedical materials, combining my knowledge from Pharma with polymer sciences. In 2017, I was invited to become full professor at the University of Maastricht and left the VU University and DSM. My research is focused assessment of molecular dynamics in biological systems and chemical industry, time and molecular structure resolved.