Mayke Vereijken obtained her Master’s degree in Educational Sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 2011. After that, she worked as an educational consultant in higher and medical education. In May 2018, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Student engagement in research in medical education’ at Leiden University. Her PhD research focused on student perceptions of research integrated into teaching. After her PhD, she was involved as a researcher in a NRO-funded research project on teachers’ professional development in inquiry-based teaching and a project on university lecturers' knowledge base of teaching. She now works as a teacher of Learning in Organisations in Educational Sciences. She's also involved in research projects on the effectiveness of academic development and scholarly teaching.

As a researcher, Mayke is part of the Focus Area Higher Education Research. In this, she works closely together with Susan te Pas, Manon Kluijtmans and Sanne Akkerman among others. Her research interest concerns multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary education. She is particularly interested in the issue of 'How to organize higher education that adequately responds to complex problems of the present and the future which, depending on the problem require very specific, multi-, inter- or transdisciplinary knowledge within universities that are structured by disciplines?'