Elsje van Bergen

Elsje van Bergen is an Associate Professor in Biological Psychology and at the Netherlands Twin Register at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She was trained in human movement sciences (VU Amsterdam and University of Aberdeen), obtained her PhD in educational sciences (UvA), did her postdoc in psychology (Oxford) and now works in behavioural genetics. She studies the causes and consequences of individual differences in learning. She integrates theories and methods from psychology, education and genetics to study how genetic and environmental influences on learning (dis)abilities work together in complex ways.