Eva van de Weijer-Bergsma studied Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (specialization: Clinical Neuropsychology, cum laude, 2003).

In 2004, she started her PhD project on the development of attention and executive functions in children born preterm. She finished her PhD in June 2009 at the Langeveld Institute for the Study of Education and Development in Childhood and Adolescence, University of Utrecht.

From 2009 until 2011, she has worked as a psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at UvA Virenze (currently Uva Minds), the academic treatment center for parent and child at the University of Amsterdam. During this period, she combined clinical work (e.d. diagnostics, treatment) with research on the effects of treatment (attention training / mindfulness).

Between 2011 and 2015, Eva has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the project 'Every child deserves differentiated math education' at the University of Utrecht.

Since 2015, she works as an assistant professor in the master programs of Child Clinical, Family and Education Studies (CCFES), Youth Education and Society (YES) and the research master Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction (EdSci).

Her research focuses on the development of executive functions (EF, working memory in particular) and the influence of contextual factors (e.g., parent-child and teacher-child interaction, classroom influences). She specifically focuses on individual differences in EF and the relation to learning. One of her studies for example, focuses on the differential effects of personalizing math problems on children depending on their working memory ability. 

She developed two online working memory tasks, the Lion game and the Monkey game, suitable for self-reliant assessment in primary school children. These tasks are available in several languages (Dutch, English and German) for use by other researchers (in- and outside the UU) via the online IT-platform Share (formerly knowns as Utrecht University Developmental Assessement Battery (UU-DAB)).