I am a Professor at the Vrije Univeriteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. with the chair Applied Research Methods in Global Health. My extensive research portfolio is in the fields of HIV and tuberculosis. As an epidemiologist, I have a personal affinity for novel, yet context-sensitive, methodological approaches for capturing public health needs and designing appropriate interventions. My current line of research is in the field of antimicrobial resistance, and syndemic processes.

My area of teaching is epidemiology and biostatistics at both the Bachelor and the Master level. Since July 2026, I am the program director of the Master health Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Between 2021 and 2026, I been a vice-director of the Amsterdam Public Health (APH) research institute that harbours over 1,900 researchers from the two academic teaching hospitals in Amsterdam, and their associated universities: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

I served as the chair of TBnet (2016-2020), a European Consortium with over 650 members dedicated to collaborative basic, translational, clinical, and applied TB research. Other past and current international collaborations include Padjadjaran University, Jakarta, Indonesia; Univerisity of Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia; Makarere University, Uganda; Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, HIV-NAT / Thai Red Cross Hopsital, Bangkok, Thailand, and Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand.

I acted as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2015-20226), and the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (2011-2019).