1967-1973 Primary School
Petrus’ Banden School, Venray, The Netherlands.

1973-1979 Secondary School
Rooms Katholieke Scholengemeenschap "Jerusalem", Venray, The Netherlands.

1979 Atheneum B Diploma (Atheneum, from Athena, the goddess of wisdom)

1979-1986 Geology Study (Structural Geology)
Institute of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Major: Structural Geology; Minors: Applied Geophysics, Materials Sciences.

1986 MSc-thesis
The Geology of the Central Lys-Caillaouas area West and South of Lac d'Oô (Central Pyrenees, France)
De Geologie van het centrale Lys-Caillaouas gebied ten westen en ten zuiden van Lac d’Oô. Een (mikro)tektonische en petrografische studie van het Cambro-Ordovicium en de Varistische intrusiva. 64 pp || PDF (Text only) (Supervisors: Prof. Henk J. Zwart, Prof. Reinoud L.M. Vissers)

1986-1992 PhD study (experimental rock deformation)
HPT-Laboratory Institute of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

1992 PhD-thesis
An experimental investigation into the effect of water on the flow of quartzite, Geologica Ultraiectina 95, 178 pp.
PDF [10 Mb] (Supervisors: Prof. Chris J. Spiers, Prof. Henk J. Zwart)

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