Since 2021: Leading Scientist, DESY, Germany
Since 2021: Professor (W3) for Experimental Physics, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Since 2021: Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Since 2020: Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, UK
2018–2021: Full Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2014–2018: Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2010–2014: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Assistant Professor
2007–2010: Postdoctoral researcher, Cornell University, USA
2005–2007: Postdoctoral researcher, Imperial College London, UK
2005: Doctorate in Physics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, supervisors: Frank Linde and Marcel Demarteau
1993–2000: Master in Physics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Since 2023: Elected member of the newly installed Diversity Monitoring and Oversight Committee, CMS Collaboration
Since 2022: Member of the Steering Committee (Outreach and Transfer Director), Cluster of Excellence “Quantum Universe”, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Since 2022: DESY High Energy Physics Department Outreach and Press Liaison
2018–2022: First ever CMS Physics Communication Officer
2018–2021: Director of undergraduate studies for the VUB BSc & MSc Physics and Astronomy
2017–2019: (Co)chairperson of the CMS Supersymmetry Publication Committee Board
2017–2019: Vice-Chairperson of WT2 (fundamental physics) funding review panel of FWO, Flanders, Belgium
2016–2018: Co-convener of the Top physics group for the future electron-positron collider FCC-ee study
2015–2018: Member of executive committee VUB faculty of Science and Bioengineering
2015–2018: Coordinator of the VUB Faculty of Science and Bioengineering VUB fellows programme
2014–2018: President of the PR and Outreach Council, VUB Faculty of Science
2014–2018: Secretary of Examination/Admissions Council, VUB Master of Physics and Astrophysics
2014–2018: Secretary of Examination Council, VUB Bachelor of Physics and Astrophysics
2012–2014: Founder of the Beyond-Two-Generations physics group in the CMS experiment at CERN
2008–2009: Convener of the CMS pixel offline software group

Prof. Dr. Freya Blekman

Principal Investigator, Outreach and Transfer Director