• Design of hospitals and buildings in the healthcare sector (Architecture for Health)
• Designing preventive, curative and rehabilitative environments (PAKARA model)
• Architectural psychology in the design process
• Evidence-based design (Evidence Based Design)
• Influence of architecture and interior design on spatial perception and stress experience
• Influence of architecture and interior design on psychosocial health and recovery (Healing Architecture)

2023-2024: Exhibition of 15 years of research and development work in the exhibition Das Kranke(n)haus.
How architecture helps to heal at the TUM Architecture Museum  in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich

since 2023: Professorship of Design and Health at Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Design

2020-2021: Visiting Professor of Architecture and Health at the Technical University of Munich at the Chair of Prof. Florian Nagler and the Chair of Prof. Hannelore Deubzer

2019: Foundation of Kopvol architecture & psychology Berlin

2009: Foundation of the architecture and research office Kopvol architecture & psychology Rotterdam, NL

2006-2008: Architect at Herzog & DeMeuron, Basel, CH

2002-2005: Design & realization Temporary International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague, NL

2001-2006: Ltd. architect at the Supreme Netherlands Building Authority / Rijksgebouwendienst, The Hague

1998-2001: Wiss.
Research assistant at Columbia University, NYC, USA and the University of Kassel alongside Prof. Lars Spuybroek

1996-1997: Studies in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University, NYC, USA

1993-1994: Fullbright scholarship holder and studies in Urban Design Pratt Institute, New York City, USA

1990-1991: Erasmus scholarship holder in architecture at the Escuela Tecnica Superior De Barcelona, ES

1989-1996:  Studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology, NL