I am currently Assistant Professor of Physics and Philosophy at the University College Groningen, a Faculty of the University of Groningen. I completed a PhD in theoretical physics at the Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo Canada. In my thesis, I helped develop a scale-free description of gravity called Shape Dynamics. Following this, I completed an NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship as a postdoc at Utrecht University and held a Dutch-funded VENI Fellowship as a postdoc in Radboud University in Nijmegen. Both postdoc positions were in Renate Loll's quantum gravity group, where I continued to develop Shape Dynamics and work on the Problem of Time with Karim Thébault.
I then held a Research Associate position in the Philosophy Department of the University of Bristol where I worked on analogue models of the early Universe. I recently completed a second PhD dissertation in Philosophy at the University of Groningen on gauge symmetries and the Arrow of Time. Currently, I am working at the Groningen Philosophy of Physics group, where I am developing the ideas of my thesis by investigating quantum cosmological models and possible links between the physics of open systems and contact geometry.