He holds has a PhD in Astronomy (Leiden, 1994) and worked as a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. He is a five-time recipient of the New Venture Prize for the best entrepreneurship education in the Netherlands. In 2010, he received the Delft Entrepreneurial Motivator award. Together with composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw, he is currently writing a book on 20th century classical music. More by this author