Curriculum Vitae - Mariët van Buuren

Current position

Associate Professor - Clinical, Neuro-, Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam

Previous positions & Education

Assistant Professor - (tenured) - Clinical, Neuro-, Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam (2017-2026)

Postdoctoral researcher - Department of Clinical, Neuro-, Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, VU Amsterdam (2017-2019)

Postdoctoral researcher - Donders Institute Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen (2012-2016)

PhD Cognitive Neuroscience - University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Psychiatry, University Utrecht

(2008-2012)

MSc Psychology - Research Master Psychology, University of Amsterdam (cum laude) (2005-2007)

BSc Psychology - University of Amsterdam (cum laude) (2002-2005)

Awards & Grants

Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam - Research grant (2026), PI - 10.000 euro

VU Amsterdam - Research grant (2023), PI - 340.000 euro

Stichting tot Steun VCVGZ - Research grant (2020) , PI - 164.045 euro

Ammodo Science Award for Groundbreaking Research - Team award (2020), co-PI - 1.200.000 euro

Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam - Research grant (2019), PI - 5.000 euro

IBRO travel award - Developing brain in health and disease meeting (2019) - 500 euro

Radboudumc - Radboud Galilei Scholarship for talented postdoctoral researchers - 10.000 euro

Teaching & Mentoring

University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) - obtained (2017)

Senior Teaching Qualification (STQ) - obtained (2022)

Educational Leadership Course (LOL)- obtained (2026)

Program director RM Clinical and Developmental Psychopathology, VU Amsterdam (2025- present)

Member of management team RM Cognitive Neuropsychology, VU Amsterdam (2024- present)

Coordinator and lecturer MSc course, Neuro-Imaging, VU Amsterdam (2021- present)

Coordinator and lecturer Research Master course, Trends in Brain and Behavior, VU Amsterdam (2022-2024)

Restructuring MSc Thesis trajectory - VU Amsterdam (2021-2023)

Coordinator and lecturer MSc course in Developmental Psychology, VU Amsterdam (2017-2020)

Supervisor MSc & BSc students - thesis and research projects, VU Amsterdam

Supervisor PhD students:

  • Asja Prodan, Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, VU Amsterdam - co-promotor (2025 - present)

  • Zwanet Young, Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, VU Amsterdam - co-promotor (2024 - present)

  • Maartje M.A. Overhaus, Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, VU Amsterdam - co-promotor (2023 - present)

  • Miriam Hollarek, Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, VU Amsterdam - co-promotor (2017 - 2024) - Defense in 2024, currently lecturer at the VU Amsterdam.

  • Reubs J Walsh, Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, VU Amsterdam - co-promotor (2017 - 2023) - Defense in 2023, currently postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto.

  • Isabella C. Wagner, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen - co-promotor (2012-2017) -Defense in 2017, currently assistant professor at the University of Vienna

  • Hester Sijtsma, Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, VU Amsterdam - Defense in 2023, currently postdoctoral researcher at the VU Amsterdam

    (2017- 2023)

  • Esther Hanssen, Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, VU Amsterdam - Defense in 2019

    (2017- 2019)

Academic Services & Membership

Chair of the data access committee of the Growing Up Together in Society Consortium

Principal Investigator within the Growing Up Together in Society Consortium

Secretary of The Scientific and Ethical Review Board (VCWE), Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, VU Amsterdam

Member of core team Young NeurolabNL (2021-2024)- a national initiative to support young researchers in the field of brain, cognition and behavior.

Member of Editorial Board Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2022-2026) - Cognitive Neuroscience section

Adhoc reviewer for international journals - Biological Psychiatry; Cerebral Cortex; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience; Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience; Hippocampus; JAMA Psychiatry; Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Journal of Psychiatric Research; Human Brain Mapping; Neuroimage; Neuropsychologia; PlosOne; Psychiatry Research