I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) working at THz spectroscopy of interstellar ice analogues in the group of Prof. G. A. Blake. I actively collaborate on various laboratory astrochemistry projects with international groups in the Netherlands, France, and Italy. I am also a mentor and supervisor of PhD candidates at Leiden University, Radboud University, and Caltech. I am the recipient of the Marie Curie IOF Fellowship and Niels Stensen Fellowship. In 2010, I received my doctoral degree at the Leiden University under the supervision of Prof. H. Linnartz and Prof. E. F. van Dishoeck with a thesis on laboratory studies of surface formation routes of interstellar molecules. I was rewarded the Dick Stufkens prize by the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry for the best PhD thesis of the year.