Suzan de Groot has been employed by the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) and her precursors since 1996. She specializes in the identification and degradation of organic materials using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and Raman Spectroscopy.

Since 2012 the emphasis of her work has been on research into plastics in cultural heritage and in modern and contemporary art objects. Since 2014 she is project manager of the Project Plastics at the RCE, within this project the Plastic Identification Tool was developed. The follow-up project ‘Smelly Plastics’ has been completed in 2024. She is an affiliated researcher at the University of Amsterdam where she teaches about plastics in cultural heritage and is involved in the projects for master theses and post master theses.