Affiliations
- Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies at Utrecht University
- Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- Alamnus of The Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, KNAW)
- International Society for Iranian Studies
- Omar Khayyam Genootschap (also see Omariana)
- Genootschap Nederland-Iran
- Research Fellow at SOAS (London)