Dirma joined EJR-Quartz in June 2000 and was on the ESA Science web team, based at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Since 2009 she is the Content Administrator for the English portal of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Over the years, Dirma has also provided support to a number of ESA websites maintained by EJR-Quartz, such as Space Science, Concurrent Design Facility, Country Desk, Education, etc. She currently supports the Discovery and Preparation web team.
Dirma obtained her master’s degree in History at the Rijksuniversiteit of Leiden. After this followed a postgraduate programme on information processing organised by Leiden University in cooperation with the Institute for History and the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI). In 1997 she joined the Space Science team at ESTEC and discovered, completely by accident, the then very new world of websites.