Marian Jongmans initially studied Human Movement Sciences at VU University in Amsterdam. Following her graduation she conducted doctoral research at the Institute of Education (University College London, UK) focussing on the relationship between brain damage in the neonatal period and motor, cognitive and social-emotional development at primary school age of preterm born children. After receiving her PhD she worked as a research fellow at the University of Bristol (UK) as part of a large prospective epidemiological health study (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents And Children; ALSPAC) studying young children with an increased risk for developmental disabilities.

Back in the Netherlands, she worked as a lecturer in child and adolescent psychology at Tilburg University with a focus on the development of preterm born infants and motor problems that children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) experience in daily life at home and school.

In 2001 she moved to Utrecht University as a professor of Special Education in combination with a research fellow post at the department of Neonatology of the Wilhelmina Children's hospital (UMC Utrecht).

During the period 2007-2010 she trained as a health care psychologist at the department of Medical Psychology and Social Work while at the same time occupying a chair in Pediatric Psychology at the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital (UMC Utrecht). Currently, 1 day a week, she is a health care psychologist at the department of Neonatology at the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital (UMC Utrecht).

From 2013 to 2017, she was head of the Department of Education & Pedagogy at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Then, from 2018 to 2024, she held the role of vice dean & director of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Expertises

Parenting and development of young children (0-6 years) with (or at risk for) a developmental disability or chronic illness.

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