My ambition is contributing to the preservation and recovery of clean water in lakes for its vital value to nature and society. To accomplish this, I currently study the feedback loop between lake water quality and society within my Veni Project 'Booming or Blooming: Future of Lakes in a Changing World' as a researcher at Wageningen University. During my PhD, I developed a novel method to simulate spatial aspects of critical nutrient loadings. Therefore, I went to China several times for collaboration. I was the first to show that critical nutrient loadings vary in space in Lake Taihu (China). After my PhD, I was commissioned by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency to develop the PCLake+ model to simulate algal blooms in both shallow and deep lakes. This model is now used for simulations of lakes around the world. After developing PCLake+, I worked in the interdisciplinary Chinese project SURE+ where I assessed integrated lake management within the land, water and food nexus in China.Before starting my PhD-project, I studied both Hydrology and Water Quality at Wageningen University. As part of this study, I wrote two theses, one at Deltares on the mussel population in the Ijssel lake area (Water Quality) and another at Wageningen University on the meandering behaviour of rivers (Hydrology). For here internship I did research on wetlands in the REFRESH project at Dansk miljøundersøgelse (DMU) in Denmark.