After practising nine years as a radiation therapist in Haaglanden Medical Center she took a Masters Course at the Graduate School of Health, Haarlem, The Netherlands. In 2003 she obtained her MSc degree Radiation Therapy in Europe. Since then she worked as a staff member Research&Development (R&D) in Haaglanden Medical Center (HMC). In 2009 she received her MSc in Epidemiology, at the Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, EMGO instituut, VUMC, Amsterdam. Thereafter, she started working on her PhD thesis ‘Avoiding the heart. About optimising whole breast irradiation’. Which was completed in 2015. Her primary focus in the department is improving the quality of the radiation therapy treatment and coordinating the research activities.