About me

I am a Dutch investigative journalist, writer and podcastmaker who has worked for Dutch publications such as DOCS (VPRO/NTR), ELLE, De Correspondent, OneWorld, Winq, LINDA., NRC Handelsblad, De Groene, Opzij, Vrij Nederland, HP/De Tijd, Nieuwe Revu, Marie Claire and Volkskrant Magazine.

Together with my husband, science writer Jop de Vrieze I was awarded the AAAS KAVLI Science Journalism Gold Award in February 2017 for the story we wrote about the stillbirth of our son, Mikki in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad.

We both were nominated again in 2021 for the VWN Publicatieprijs, a Dutch Science Journalism Award. As runners up we were nominated for the European Science Writer of the Year Award in 2021.

In October 2019 my book on Radovan Karadzic Op zoek naar Karadzic was published.

My articles have been published in Belgium (Humo), the UK (Winq) and all over the Balkans via BalkanInsight.com.

In 2008 I was nominated for a Dutch journalism award (Mercur) for her interview with the wife and daughter of Radovan Karadzic.

I also worked as a fixer for Albanian media, Danish television and as a researcher and undercover reporter filming with hidden camera's for BBC Panorama (The Chicken Run, 2003).

For my projects I received Dutch, Danish and American funding.

We live in Amsterdam with our son and our two very, very old puddycats.