Mirjam Moerbeek is an associate professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She obtained her master degree in biometrics from Wageningen Agricultural University (1996, cum laude) and her PhD in applied statistics from Maastricht University (2000). She has received prestigious Veni and Vidi research grants from the Netherlands’ Society for Scientific Research (NWO) as well as grants to hire PhD students (Radboud University Nijmegen, NWO Open Competition, 2006, 2022). Mirjam has supervised numerous bachelor, master and PhD thesis projects and received promotion rights (ius promovendi) in 2023.

Mirjam's research interests are statistical power analysis and optimal experimental design, especially for hierarchical and survival data. Her research has been published in over a hundred international peer-reviewed journal papers, four book chapters, two books, many non-reviewed publications and (invited) conference presentations.

Mirjam was joint organizer of a colloquium and master class on Cost Efficient and Optimal Designs for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), was chair of the local organization committee of the VI European Congres of Methodology and was the joint organizer of the biennial International Conference on Multilevel Analysis. She currently is the president of the European Association of Methodology.

• Book on power analysis of trials with multilevel models (with Steven Teerenstra).
• Book on multilevel analysis (with Joop Hox and Rens van de Schoot)
• European Association of Methodology
• Research master Methodology and Statistics for the Behavioural, Biomedical and Social Sciences
• Minor Methods and Statistics for bachelor students
• Research Gate
• The 14th International Multilevel Conference (April 12-13, 2024)