I studied molecular biology and plant biology at the University of Utrecht. During my Bsc and Msc education, I carried out two internships at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology (MPIMP) in Potsdam Germany. Having piqued my interest in oxygen sensing, I then choose this topic for my PhD dissertation which I defended in 2015 at the Scuola Sant’Anna of advanced studies and the MPIMP in a collaborative binational PhD. Afterwards I was a Postdoctoral researcher at the RWTH Aachen University in the group of Prof. Joost van Dongen. From 2018 I continue my research activities as an Assistant Professor in plant physiology at the Scuola Sant’Anna of advanced studies.