2003 - Present: Associate researcher at Institute for
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (
2005 - 2006: Technical writer/Editor at Shell International Exploration and Production
2004 - 2005: Lecturer at
2000 - 2003: MSc. in Science
Communication at
June 2003: Coordinator workshop on Neogene Amazonia at 3rd Latinamerican Congress of Sedimentology.
2000- 2002: Research Associate at the Herbarium of Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
1996-1998: Lecturer at the Sultan Qaboos University (Sultanate of Oman).
1996: Visiting consultant at the Sultan Qaboos University (Sultanate of Oman). Coordinator for the courses Paleontology I and Petroleum Geology.
1995: Postdoctoral research on palynology of the Quaternary sediments of the Amazon Fan (ODP leg 155).
1994: PhD University of Amsterdam. Title dissertation: Paleoecology and fluvial dynamics in the Southeastern Colombian Amazones in the Tertiary and Quaternary. Thesis supervisors: Prof. dr. T. van der Hammen and Prof. dr. S.B. Kroonenberg.
1988-1989: Research on Neogene geology of northwestern Amazonia. A cooperation between the University of Amsterdam, Tropenbos-Colombia and Ingeominas (Colombian Geological Survey).
1980-1988: Geology student at the University of Amsterdam (Stratigraphy/Paleontology/Palynology with as additional subject Sedimentology).
1970-1980: High school in Malaga (Spain).
Languages
English, Dutch, Spanish (fluent)
Scientific
Expeditions
2007: Geological Expedition to
1997: Palynological and geological research in Southern Oman
1997: Geological research in Nepal
1988-1991: Geological research in the Amazonian rainforest (Colombia, Peru, Brazil)
1985: Geological research in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes
1981-1984: Geological research in southern and north-eastern Spain