Mariska obtained her master’s degree in Pharmacy in 2010 at Utrecht University. She started her career in the pharmaceutical industry at the Regulatory Affairs and Medical Information department of a medium sized pharmaceutical company. She was in the frontline to successfully obtain a Marketing Authorization under the Well Established Use(WEU) article. She also performed a variety of other projects including regulatory dossier compilation, (pre-)clinical research projects, developing product information and employee training. Due to her pharmacy background Mariska also became involved in quality assurance activities such as setting up document management systems, writing product quality reviews and drug stability reports. At a later stage, she was responsible for initiation and execution of named patient programs in the Netherlands.
In 2018 Mariska joined BFC as a consultant. She is involved in various projects concerning quality affairs and regulatory affairs.