In 1995 I received there a B.Sc. in information technology. In the same year, I started to study Technology & Society at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.

In 1998 I graduated with a project that was set at Philips Centre for Manufacturing Technology. During my university study I also had a parttime job at the usability lab of the Rabobank. As of September 1998, I became a Ph.D. student. First at IPO- Center for User-system interaction and later at the department of Technology Management.

From February 2003 to December 2007, I worked as a lecturer at Brunel University, School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics. In 2004 I obtained my Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (PGCert), at Brunel University. In 2007 I moved back to The Netherlands, but remain an associate researcher at Brunel University.

In August 2007 I started as an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology in the Section Man-Machine Interaction.