Luce Claessens is an anthropolgist and an educational psychologist. Before pursuing a career in educational sciences, she worked as a teacher at an urban primary school in Utrecht. Her interest in teachers’ behaviour and cognitions was sparked here and she is currently coordinator of the teacher training program for primary school teachers at the department of Education. Her research focuses on teacher-student relationships from the perspective of the teacher. Her interests include social cognition, motivation, interpersonal relationships, (student) teacher expertise development and research based teacher education programs.