Amanda van Loon obtained her bachelor Psychobiology and her research master Cognitive Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Amsterdam. She is interested in the development of children and adolescents and in intervention research. 

Amanda obtained her PhD in 2022 at the department of Clinical Child and Family Studies. She worked on the project Connecting Education and Youth Care: development of a Response to Intervention Model for the approach of school-related stress in secondary school. Amanda examined the effect of stress interventions, for which students the interventions are effective and which factors contribute to this. For more information, take a look at Stress Less Project. 

At the moment Amanda is an Assistant Professor at the department of Clinical Child and Family Studies. She works on the project of investigating the effectiveness of SterkWerk, an classroom-based approach for groups 5-8, where children are given meaningful roles to actively work on responsibility, ownership and prosocial behavior. For more information, take a look at www.sterkwerkschool.nl or SterkWerk. 

Amanda is an Assistant Professor of the Sector Plan Social and Behavioural Sciences, her research theme is Resilience in youth. Most children in the Netherlands develop well and find their way in the complex society. But that is not self-evident. Various building blocks influence the resilience of children and young people - from genetic predisposition to geopolitical influences. We investigate how resilience is built, and where we can intervene to prevent problems.

In addition, Amanda teaches the minor Juvenile Delinquency and supervises students with writing their theses.