Biography

I am an Assistant Professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in the Precision Imaging Group of the Center for Image Sciences. As a biomedical engineer, I develop quantitative MRI methods for the mechanistic measurement of skeletal muscle in vivo, spanning hardware, acquisition, processing, and clinical infrastructure, with a focus on making them robust, standardized, and usable by others.

My PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology and Amsterdam UMC introduced me to diffusion tensor imaging of skeletal muscle, establishing a processing framework. Since joining UMC Utrecht, my research has expanded to hardware design, multinuclear imaging, and clinical translation, with muscle as the consistent thread.

I develop and maintain QMRITools, an open-source Mathematica toolbox for quantitative MRI analysis, and I am building the Motion Study, a cross-sectional database of 160 healthy subjects with whole-leg quantitative MRI, force measurements, and lifestyle data.

Looking ahead, I aim to link muscle architecture, dynamics, and metabolism in one integrated framework. This requires MRI methods that capture muscle function under real physiological conditions, to transform how muscle disease, injury, and performance are understood and monitored.

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