I am a faculty member at GRAPPA* of the University of Amsterdam and a program leader at the Dutch institute for Subatomic Physics, Nikhef. My main interests are in neutrino physics, through the KamLAND(-Zen) experimental program, and dark matter detection through the XENON experiment. I have been part of the KamLAND collaboration since 2002. (* Gravitation & Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam)