Dutch Consulate-general in Antwerp to help initiate a 'cultural wing' to intensify the cultural
infrastructure between Holland and Flanders and to boost the image of Holland as a city of art and
culture
Internship at Urbis, Manchester: Organisation of two multidisciplinary exhibitions featuring
emerging British talent in contemporary art and design.
Project Coordinator, Galerie, Germany, Running of small art gallery dedicated to supporting local
artists
Project manager, Iko Poran, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, Development of urban research project for
children
Museum and cultural centre: Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Osnabrueck, Germany
voluntary at a cultural house in progress
Freelancer and photographer
Job trainee at Futuresonic Festival, Manchester
Founder and Coordinator of Brussels Kunstenoverleg Platform
Urban Policy/Cultural policy
Leading projects and making/writing policies in the tourism/recreation sector
Housing Support Officer for Bolton Council, UK
German Federal Minsitry of Development Cooperation
UNESCO, Paris, France
Research and Advice, Amsterdams Steunpunt Wonen (ASW) Housing Advisory Centre Amsterdam,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Governance Public Space, research, planning and process management, City of Amsterdam
Traineeship city of Amsterdam, trainee, City of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Academic Research/Teaching
Teaching a course on methods of environmental psychology (with quite some methods from
different fields)
Research Assistant, Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology
Lecturer Leisure Studies, Tilburg University
Lecturer Leisure Management
researcher department creative industries, project leader COLIN (network organisation for the
creative industries), Breda University of Applied Science
2 Academic researchers at Urban Research Centre COSMOPOLIS/Free University of Brussels
Research Assistant at Centre for Research on Educational Evaluation and Development/National
Taiwan Normal University
Director of Alumni Services Division/Soochow University, Taiwan
Researcher. The Foreign Affairs. Mexico-Finland. 2006.
Researcher/writer for New Orleans Nine Ward Design Competition for Global Green
Researcher/writer for "What happens after design?" installation for the Poster Biennale, Mexico
Commercial Research
Research Analyst for Consumer Goods & Retail
Real Estate Researcher: research on housing developments in Amsterdam and consulting
investors, housing corporations, property developers and governmental institutions during specific
projects or about policy in general
Monterrey, Mexico: project on implementing e-commerce in an American-Mexican printing
company
Planning & Architecture
Hotel Planning, Grupo Posadas. Oaxaca, Mexico: supervise design, mediate between design
agency and stock holders, permit negotiations
Business/Commercial Sector
Own company providing tools for sustainability management in terms of ecological footprinting,
material and resource flow analysis and carbon accounting in Helsinki
Marketing, brand strategy development group, SUNSTAR, Tokyo/Japan
Call Centre job via job agency
Financial controller at the national association for practitioners
Information Technology, System Engineering, Mexico
Studying
2 PhD’s in Sociology
PhD in Arts
PhD program in social psychology
Further Studies: Mediterranean cultural studies
Further Studies: Art Master: Image analysis and decodification (MBA)
Further Studies: culture pilot, similar to polis to maintain knowledge. (Hive.no)
Internet study on social exclusion in European cities