Marinus van IJzendoorn

Marinus H. van IJzendoorn is a Professor of Child and Family Studies at the Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He also holds a Wellcome Trust Visiting Professorship in the Primary Care Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Marinus is an Emeritus Professor at Leiden University. His research is on:

• attachment and emotion regulation across the life span and in various cultural and clinical groups
• the neurobiology of parenting;
• correlates and consequences of child abuse and neglect;
• family intervention.

He applies meta-analytic and individual participant data (IPD) approaches to a range of topics in developmental psychology and psychopathology.