Jacqueline Wong obtained her Ph.D. (cum laude) with her thesis entitled Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning Through Instructional Supports and Learning Analytics in Online Higher Education from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her thesis was accorded the best thesis award 2021 by the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities. She studied Educational Psychology and completed her Master's (cum laude), where she examined the use of movements to support text comprehension. Her research interest is fuelled by her passion for teaching and learning. She has experience teaching at various educational levels in Singapore, Shanghai, and the Netherlands.

Before joining Utrecht University, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Delft Institute of Mathematics at Delft University of Technology, focusing on educational research in the Program of Innovation in Mathematics Education (PRIME) from 2020 to 2022. As a postdoctoral researcher, she spearheaded multi-disciplinary research projects. She worked with lecturers to promote student motivation and self-regulated learning in blended service mathematics courses and examine the effectiveness of technology tools for learning mathematics. She has been an active research member of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Learning and Education (LDE-CEL) and the network for Self-Regulated Learning in Digitalised Schools (SeReLeDiS).