Marleen de Moor

My research revolves around the question how child development, parenting and (epi)genetic factors are interrelated. My research is mainly carried out within the longitudinal cohort study Generations2.

• Coordinator methods-curriculum of the bachelor programmes Psychology and Education.
• Statistics 2 (General Linear Model: Multiple linear regression, analysis of (co)variance). Second year bachelor course Psychology and Education
• Statistics 3 (General/ized Linear Mixed Models: Mediation and Moderation models, Logistic Regression Models, Repeated Measures ANOVA, Linear Mixed Models). Third year bachelor course Education

Main applicant

• Material support “Genotyping in participants of Generations²”, funded by VU Faculty of Psychology and Education (19.579 €), 2018-present
• Project for PhD student “Go explore the world! On parenting and the development of motor activity in early childhood”, funded by VU Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences (201.600 €), 2015-present
• Material support “The interaction between genes and parenting environment on the development of the young child: A polygenic approach”, funded by VU Faculty of Psychology and Education (48.000 €), 2015
• Material support “The influence of genes and parenting environment on the development of the young child: A candidate gene approach”, funded by VU Faculty of Psychology and Education (55.000 €), 2014
• VENI-grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) “Causal modeling of behavioral traits using genetically informative designs” (grant number 451-10-005) (250.000 €), 2014
• ENGAGE grant for postdoc for project “Phenotype harmonization of personality data using Item Response Theory” (PI’s: Stephanie van den Berg, Marleen de Moor, Cornelia van Duijn en Dorret Boomsma) (27.300 €), 2011

Co-applicant

• Genome-wide epigenetic analysis for project “The impact of child maltreatment on epigenetic changes and psychopathology”, funded by AUGEO (99.900 €), 2017-present
• Project for three postdocs “Wonder-full education and human flourishing: stimulating children’s learning, morality, and spirituality”, funded by Sir John Templeton Foundation Sciences (800.000 €), 2017-present
• Project for postdoc “Stress- en rookvrije zwangerschap: Een e-health interventie voor vrouwen met (lichte) verstandelijke beperkingen”, funded by Fonds Nuts Ohra (288.465 €), 2017-present

• Early Career Investigator Program Award, XVIIIth World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Athens, Greece, October 3-7 2010
  
• EMGO+ Societal Impact Award for organizing 25 years Netherlands Twin Register in Burger’s Zoo in 2014
• Best Poster Award, Conference of European Network for Genetic and Genomic Epidemiology (ENGAGE), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 15 November 2012
• Thompson award for best student paper, 38^th Behavior Genetics Association congress, Louisville (Ky), USA, June 25-28 2008
• Galton award for best student paper, 11^th International Congress of Twin Studies, Ghent, Belgium, June 7-10 2007

• Ph.D. in Behavior Genetics (cum laude), PhD thesis: “Exercise behavior and mental health: A genetic perspective”, Supervisors: Prof. dr. Dorret I. Boomsma & Prof. dr. Eco J.C. de Geus
• M.Sc. in Psychological Methods (cum laude), Master thesis projects: “Causality in the longitudinal panel design and in time series: A comparison of methods” and “Fit indices and the selection of time series models”. Supervisors: dr. Ellen M. Hamaker, dr. Conor V. Dolan & Prof. dr. Peter C.M. Molenaar. Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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