Last updated: August 5, 2023
Our book is in press!
It will be published by University College London UCL Press online as Open Access e-book in February 2024.
Aim of the personal website
This website is about scientific work conducted on the intriguing puzzle of parenting and its influence on child development in the era of the genome and the brain. The ‘Dutch Blog‘ and ‘Nieuws‘ are in the Dutch language, as these are notes pertaining to local issues.
The banner is part of a winter landscape painted by Hendrick Avercamp (1585 – 1634), in fond memory of three wonderful Frisian Eleven Cities Skating Tours (Elfstedentochten).
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Main affiliations
Honorary Professor at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Division Psychology and Language Sciences, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL, London, UK.
Adjunct Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
E-mail addresses
primary e-mail: marinusvanijzendoorn@gmail.com;
UCL email: ucjumv2@ucl.ac.uk
secondary emails: Marinus.vanIJzendoorn@monash.edu
Websites of studies with my involvement
L-CID study:
https://readymag.com/u21932671/cid2019-2020/lcid_profile/
Generation R study:
https://www.erasmusmc.nl/en/research/core-facilities/generation-r
Father Trials study:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/669249
Mercy Pregnancy Emotional Wellbeing Study: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/scs/researchers/megan-galbally
Publications
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=Z47xzgEAAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marinus_Van_IJzendoorn
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1144-454X
UCL profile: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/people/marinus-van-ijzendoorn
Valorisation
www.lollenautafoundation.eu
https://transformcare4children.org/home
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Sitting in the shadow of the statue of Charles Darwin in the garden of Christ’s College in Cambridge as a reminder of his immense courage and brilliant contributions
Darwin suffered from ‘bad hair days’, see Darwin quote:
Marinus van IJzendoorn studies the social, psychological and neurobiological determinants of parenting and child development, with special emphasis on attachment, emotion regulation, differential susceptibility, and child maltreatment. Central question is whether and how parents and other caregivers shape children’s development in the current era of the genome and the brain.
His research was part of PEARL –Program for Emotion regulation and Attachment Research in Leiden, the research program of the Centre for Child and Family Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. PEARL has been dissolved by the end of 2017, after decades of productive collaborative work with a large and enthusiastic team of colleagues and co-workers. Alan Sroufe evaluated PEARL in June 2016 as follows: “This is an extraordinary program. The team is highly productive, and the cutting edge research being carried out is of the highest quality.”
At Leiden University Marinus is a Professor Emeritus (since his obligatory retirement age for his age cohort in the Netherlands) but he continues to be involved in several Leiden research programs, among others the Leiden Consortium for Individual Development (L-CID; since May 2018 as Scientific Consultant), 3G Family Lab, and Father Trials (directed by Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, now moved to the ISPA – University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal).
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At Erasmus University Rotterdam he retired as a professor of human development in the Department of Psychology, Education, and Child Studies (DPECS) (See website) and became a visiting professor in the same department. He is one of the PIs of Generation R (See website). (See website). He left the Erasmus University Rotterdam with a valedictory lecture, see above.
From October 1, 2017 to October 1 2020, he was a Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK, and in 2019 he was a Visiting Fellow at Sidney Sussex College founded by Lady Frances Sidney, with the saying ‘Dieu me Garde de Calomnie’ (Lady Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex,1531–1589).
From 2018 to 2022 he was a visiting professor of human development at the School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. He taught courses for faculty, MA and PhD students on meta-analysis of human development research and on child socio-emotional development, and was a scientific advisor for child development research.
From November 1 2020 to November 1 2025 he is appointed visiting professor at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Division on Psychology and Language Sciences, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL, University of London, London, UK.
From June 1, 2022 he became a Monash University Affiliate at Psychiatry Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, to work with professor Megan Galbally and her team. This was updated to an Adjunct Professor position for 5 years (2023-2028 D.V.)
In October 2022 he was a visiting professor at the University of Trento, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science.
On May 12 the valedictory lecture with his farewell to Erasmus University Rotterdam was presented. His ongoing work in Generation R is continued.
More than 15 years ago Adriana Bus and Marinus van IJzendoorn started the Lolle Nauta Foundation to work with African faculty and students in the area of education, developmental psychology and family studies. Ten African students were successfully supported in conducting their PhD studies.
In 2018 a small company Beagle Advice, Research and Development started in the domain of parenting and child development.
Scientific genealogy going back to von Gudde, von Goethe, and William of Ockham 🙂
