Associate professor at IQ Health, Radboud University Medical Center and leader of a research group on Affordability and Accessibility of Care.

His research focuses on the economics of public health policy, including the modeling of health and health care costs over the lifecycle, the fiscal sustainability of health care spending, long-term care, prevention, and socioeconomic inequalities in health and health care use. His work has a strong policy focus with many contributions to the Dutch and international policy debate.

He has contributed to reports for the European Commission, the WHO and OED, and the Dutch ministries of Health and Finance. He previously held positions as a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB).

He is the chair of the Dutch-Flemish Health Economics Association (VGE).