Welcome,

and feel free to roam around my web site.

 
Based mostly in Amsterdam and partly in Paris (as shown by the picture), I am a freelance writer, editor and allround communications consultant specialized in the life sciences.

As a writer, I cover (European) science policy and biomedical research for journals like Nature Biotechnology. However, a growing part of my work involves other types of writing.

For example, as a writer and editor, I have created numerous commercial texts, press statements, web texts, invitations and research reports. Moreover, I authored business and research proposals which, taken together, gathered tens of millons of euros from various funding sources, including the Dutch government.

As a communications consultant, I provide stategic advice on dealing with the media, sometimes through hands-on training, to international companies, organizations as well as leading Dutch politicians. I also moderate highly interactive public debates.

Whatever I do, my background shines through: a biologist who focuses on science and brings decades of expertise in written and visual media, collected both within Europe and the US.

 
More info

Hyperlinks at the top of this page will help you find out more about me. My work presents a sample of my writings as a journalist (in English). Resumé tells you what else I've been doing thus far. Click Contact if you'd like to get in touch—for instance about new or potential assignments. Or, hit Search.. to search either this web site, the internet or Pubmed for me or my work.

Of course, you can also switch to my web site in Dutch.

Needless to say everything on this web site is protected by copyright laws; clients are encouraged to take note of my basic terms.

Happy browsing,

(Jan 2009)