She holds a Ph.D from Tilburg University, Netherlands. She has lectured in various areas of Economics, Industrial Organization, and Microeconomics both at the VU University of Amsterdam and at Tilburg University. Her research focuses on competition policy and market regulation. Recently, her work is on analysis of optimal policies for deterrence of antitrust law violations and on analysis of optimal joint design of innovation and competition policy. She wrote several high profile academic papers on antitrust and market competition as well as providing expert consultancy to a range of public bodies (including the Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa) and Dutch Competition Authority (NMa) in the Netherlands).