Jeroen van Merriënboer, PhD
Function: Program director Research in Education, School of Health Professions Education.
Department: Department of Educational Development and Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University.
Email: j.vanmerrienboer@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Jeroen van Merriënboer has been trained as an experimental psychologist at the VU University Amsterdam and has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Twente (1990). He has been working as an assistant and associate professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Twente (1990-1997) and the Faculty of Psychology of Maastricht University (1997-1998) and as a full research professor at the Open University of the Netherlands (1998-2009).
In 2009 he joined the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University, where he is holding a chair in Learning and Instruction. He is currently program director of Research in Education (RiE), the research and PhD program of the School of Health Professions Education (SHE). He is also scientific director of the Interuniversity Centre for Educational Research (www.ou.nl/ico), a collaboration of ten Dutch universities offering a joint course program for PhD students in educational sciences. His main area of expertise is learning and instruction, in particular instructional design and the use of new media in innovative learning environments. He has published widely on four-component instructional design (www.tensteps.info), cognitive load theory, and lifelong learning . He holds several academic awards for his research and has been a supervisor for over 25 PhD students.
Curriculum Vitae Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer.
