Marc’s career as a criminal law scholar, specialized in victims’ rights, kick-started with his PhD on “Compensation for Victims of Crimes in the Criminal Trial” defended at Leiden University in 1985. For this magnum opus of 400 pages, he duly received in 1986 the prestigious Modderman Prize for best criminal law PhD of the year. Unsurprisingly, he was soon thereafter, in 1987, at the tender age of 30, appointed Full Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Tilburg University. Thirty years later, he is still the incumbent of that same chair, besides having been Dean of both the Law and the Social Sciences Faculty of Tilburg University and Founding Director of the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT). His tenure in Tilburg, lasting more than three decades, makes him without doubt one of the longest-sitting chair holders of Dutch universities.