I am the editor-in-chief of the university newspaper Delta and the science/alumni magazine Delft Integraal/Outlook at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. I also lecture in science journalism at this university. In the past I was editor of the online science journalism course of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), and a science journalist and television researcher for popular science programmes on Dutch public television and radio. Several of the episodes of programmes I worked on have won national awards. I have written news stories for the national science news internet portal Noorderlicht, and wrote a chapter on biometrics for the popular life science book In the Future Everything Will Be Fantastic (2006). I was a member of the executive committee of the World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ) 2009 in London, and of the program committee of the WCSJ 2011 in Doha. I am a founder of ScienceOnline Leiden, the first Dutch community of people communicating about science on the web. I am an active member of the Dutch Association of Science Journalists (VWN). (Photo by Irene Cécile)