Marc was born in 1991 in Tiel, the Netherlands. He obtained both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemistry from the University of Groningen, in 2016 and 2019 respectively.
His Master research, performed in the group of Prof. Minnaard, involved the synthesis of bifluorescence-labeled oligosaccharides for the detection of amylase activity.
He was part of the 2019 iGEM Groningen team, where he worked on the modification of commercial 3D printer hardware for biotech applications.
In December 2019, he returned to the Minnaard group as a PhD student. His current research efforts are focused on employing carbohydrates as scaffolds for medicinal chemistry and applying cheminformatics tools to assist organic synthesis.