• Secondary vocational education (mbo)
• Higher education
• Teacher training
• Student finance
• DUO (education executive agency)
• International matters
• Research and science policy
• Culture (incl. central government funds for culture)
• Public libraries
• Heritage
• Archives
• Media (incl. the Media Authority) and independent journalism
• Government Information and Heritage Inspectorate, Cultural Heritage Agency, National Archives
• Inspectorate of Education

• 2 July 2024 
  Appointed Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Schoof government
• April 2022 – 2 July 2024
  Chair of the Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation
• April 2021  – 2 July 2024
  Independent consultant on strategy, management and leadership
• December 2015 – March 2021
  Member of the House of Representatives for the Christian Union (CU)
• May 2008 – November 2015
  Director, STW Technology Foundation (part of NWO)
• February 2004 – April 2008
  Institute manager, Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), Leiden University
• February 2004 – December 2006
  Scientific director, Lorentz Institute, Leiden University
• March 1997 – January 2004
  Programme coordinator, FOM foundation for physics research (part of NWO)
• July 1995 – February 1997
  Post-doctoral staff member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
• September 1991 – June 1995
  PhD research student, FOM foundation for physics research (part of NWO)

• 3 October 1995
  PhD degree, Utrecht University. Dissertation: ‘The neutron magnetic form factor’
• 1987 – 1991
  Physics (specialising in experimental nuclear physics), Utrecht University
• 1985 – 1987
  Preparatory course (piano), Zwolle Academy of Music
• 1981 – 1987
  Secondary education, Myrtus College, Apeldoorn

Eppo Bruins has had many outside roles over the years. Recently he was:

• 2023 – 2024
  Member of the Analytics Committee, Ministry of Finance
• 2022 – 2024
  Chair of the Strategic Advisory Council, TNO Healthy Living & Work