Marinus H. "Rien" van IJzendoorn (May 14, 1952) is professor of human development and one of the co-leaders of Generation R at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work has focussed on the social, psychological, and neurobiological determinants of parenting and child development, with special emphasis on attachment, emotion regulation, differential susceptibility hypothesis, and child maltreatment. In 1976, van IJzendoorn graduated cum laude at the University of Amsterdam. Two years later he obtained his PhD magna cum laude at the Free University of Berlin/Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education. After this he continued his work at Leiden University. In 1981, at age 29, he became full professor. Van IJzendoorn worked as a guest researcher at several places in the United States and Israel. He received a Pionier-grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research in 1991, which was used for the start of a new research group. In 1998 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1998 and 1999 he was the dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. In 2004 Van IJzendoorn received the Spinoza Prize for his work. In 2007 he was awarded for his Distinguished International Contributions to Child Development by the Society for Research in Child Development, and in 2008 he received an honorary doctorate at the University of Haifa. In 2011 he received the Aristotle Prize of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations, and the Bowlby-Ainsworth Founder Award of the Center for Mental Health Promotion and The New York Attachment Consortium. In 2013 he was awarded the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science since 2011. Van IJzendoorn is an ISI Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2016 placing him in the top 1% most cited scientists in the psychology/psychiatry world over the years 2004–2014. More information...
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