She studied Germanic languages and literature in Gent (BE) and film studies and film archiving in Norwich (UK). Early on in her career, she worked in the Collections Department of the Nederlands Filmmuseum (now EYE Film Institute Netherlands); first as a film restorer, and later as a project leader. In 2010, she obtained her PhD from Utrecht University, with a thesis on classroom films in the post-Second-World-War period (published in 2012 as Watch and Learn: Rhetorical Devices in Classroom Films after 1940). She teaches among others in UvA’s MAs in Film Studies and Heritage Studies: Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, and also acts as coordinator for the latter programme. With Giovanna Fossati, she coordinates the research group Moving Images: Preservation, Curation, Exhibition (ASCA).