Personal Information
Education
Professional experience
Reports
Special courses
Attended conferences and Meetings
Stays abroad
Extracurricular activities

Education
4/2003 - 4/2005
Ph.D. Project in Geosciences at Bremen University - Bremen, Germany
Development of micropalaeontologic and palynologic proxies for palaeodepth and productivity in the Maastrichtian Tethys.
Not graduated.

9/1995 - 4/2002
M.Sc. in Earth Sciences / Geology at the Vrije Universiteit - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Broad basis in Geology, Sedimentology, Paleontology, Structural Geology, Hydrology, Geomorphology, Petrology and Field Geology.
Specialisation in analysis of sedimentary environments. Stratigraphy, (Micro)paleontology, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.
Graduated (2002) with an average mark > 7.0 on a scale of 10.0.

09/1989 - 07/1995
Secondary education (VWO) at the R.K. College Leeuwenhorst - Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
Graduated (1995) in Dutch, English, French, Mathematics B, Physics, Chemistry, Economy 2.
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Professional experience
Full time
01/08/2006 - Present
Recruiter and Project Manager for New Times International in Shijiazhuang, China.
My job consists of four parts. 1) to recruit prospective English teachers, give them information about our organisation and answer their questions. 2) to support teachers who are employed through us. In small everyday problems as well as in problems with their schools and/or paperwork. 3) to develop and manage volunteer and homestay programs, both individual and in a framework of cooperation and/or exchange programs with foreign partners. 4) to set up training courses to introduce Western teaching methods to and test English proficiency of Chinese English teachers.

15/07/2006 - 15/08/2006
Summer course English teacher for Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang, China.
My job was to teach oral English and introduce teaching methods to future Middle School teachers

06/07/2006 - 15/07/2006
Instructor at the International Education Exchange Association Teacher Training Course in Wen Tang Hot Spring Resort, China.
My job was to instruct new teaching methods to Chinese vocational school English teachers.

18/02/2006 - 30/06/2006
English teacher for Gang'An Training School in Cangzhou, China.
My job was to teach English to students ranging from children in kindergarten to adults.

09/2005 - 10/2005
Driver/Courier for Bestelnet B.V. in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
My job was to deliver papers and brochures to paperboys/girls.

06/2005 - 08/2005
Assistant programmer for Janson Automatiseringsbureau B.V. in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
My job was to assist in programming software for election machines.

09/2000 - 07/2001
Internship at the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis in Leiden, The Netherlands.
My job was to make a paleoclimatic analysis of the Miocene based on changes in the gastropod assemblage.

Part time
09/2001 - 02/2002 (twice a week)
Courier for Wijnkoperij Otterman in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
My job was to deliver wine to restaurants, companies and private persons.

2000 - 2002 (annualy one and a half week full-time)
Student assistant at the annual meeting of the European Geophysical Society in Nice, France.
My job was to welcome, register and assist the attendants and guests.

02/1998 and 11/1998 (twice one week full-time)
Pensioen en UitkeringsRaad (Pension and Benefit Board) in Leiden, The Netherlands.
My job was to update software on a local network.

02/1992 - 12/1999 (twice a week in the evening plus saturdays)
Shop assistant at the TopTien Supermarket in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
My job included serving customers, stock replenishment and the last two years supervising the fruit and vegetable department.

1989 - 1992 (summer and autumn holidays)
Several part-time jobs in the flower industry in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
My job included peeling and planting flower bulbs.
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Reports
Freshwater and terrestrial gastropods as climatological indicators for Late Miocene lake deposits.
M.Sc. Thesis on the derivation of paleoecological and paleoclimatological signals from the taxonomy of lacustrine and terrestrial gastropods. Ratios of different groups of species as well as species assemblages derived from cluster analysis show stratigraphic shifts, which can be interpretated as variations in the humidity/temperature signal.
Download Abstract (.pdf)

Deposition and rhythmicity of deep-water sediments, Zumaia, Spain.
Report about (cyclo)stratigraphical research on Maastrichtian deposits of (hemi)pelagic origin. Detailed stratigraphical measurements showed a, previously unnoticed, discontinuity and made it possible to determine more accurately the age of geologic events, e.g. biostratigraphy could be determined very accurately this way.
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Special Courses
2004
Jurassic-Cretaceous-Tertiary Dinoflagellate Cyst Course; Morphology, Stratigraphy & (paleo)ecology
Henk Brinkhuis (LPP, Utrecht University), Joerg Pross (Tuebingen University), James B. Riding (British Geological Survey, UK)

2004
International School on Planktonic Foraminifera 3rd Course: Cretaceous Planktonic Foraminifera
Isabella Premoli Silva, Davide Verga (Universit?degli Studi di Milano)

2003
Chemical Paleocanography
Martin Frank (ETH Zü:rich, EUROPROX, NSG)

2003
Time-series analysis of paleoclimatic data
Michael Schulz (University Bremen, EUROPROX, RCOM)

2003
Paleoceanography of Cretaceous to Cenozoic oceans
Torsten Bickert, Jochen Kuss, Robert Speijer (University Bremen, EUROPROX, RCOM)

1999
Hydrocarbon Evaluation
Prof. dr. H. Doust and Prof. dr.R. Murris (Shell International)

1999
Basin Analysis
Prof. dr. S.A.P.L. Cloetingh (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

1998
Plate Tectonics
Prof. dr. S.A.P.L. Cloetingh (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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Attended conferences and meetings
20 - 28/08/2004
32nd International Geological Congress in Florence, Italy
The use of micropaleontologic proxies in reconstructing paleobathymetry and paleoproductivity in the Maastrichtian Tethys.
J.W.M. Peeters, H. Brinkhuis, S. Galeotti, R.P. Speijer
Download Poster at A4 format (.pdf)

05 - 06/04/2004
7th Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres; Planet Earth: Kicking and Alive in Veldhoven, the Netherlands
The use of micropaleontologic and palynologic proxies in reconstructing paleobathymetry and paleoproductivity in the Maastrichtian Tethys.
J.W.M. Peeters, R.P. Speijer, J. Kuss
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Stays abroad
11/2003
University of UrbinoCarlo Bo Urbino, Italy
I spent four weeks collecting, preparing and analyzing samples from Tunisia, and improving taxonomic knowledge of planktic and benthic foraminifera.

05/2004 ?08/2004
University of Utrecht ?Utrecht, the Netherlands
Four months preparing samples for palynological analysis, and receive introduction in palynology.

See also the page Fieldwork and Travel Experience.
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Extracurricular activities (student’s society GeoVUsie)
2000 - present
Member of the VIP-committee. The student society´s alumni and advising committee.

1999
Editor-member of the GeoWeb. A committee which designs and maintains the website.

1996
Member of the GeoCult. A committee which organizes cultural activities and trips.
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