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Dr. Monika Donker serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Youth and Family within Utrecht University's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Her academic base is the Martinus J. Langeveld Building (Heidelberglaan 1, Room E2.28) in Utrecht, Netherlands. As an active researcher, she contributes to the Dynamics of Youth (DoY) initiative and leads investigations within the InTransition project focusing on parent-adolescent interactions and adolescent autonomy development.
Her research expertise spans emotion dynamics, interpersonal relationships, and psychophysiological measurement techniques. Specializing in longitudinal and dynamical systems approaches, she examines teacher-student relationships, parent-child interactions, and adolescent development through multimodal methodologies including heart rate monitoring and behavioral coding. Her work integrates personality theory with developmental frameworks to understand stress responses in educational and family contexts.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals strong thematic continuity in educational and developmental psychology, with increasing emphasis on pandemic-related family dynamics and physiological assessment methods. Her scholarly output demonstrates methodological sophistication through integration of self-report, observational, and physiological data streams, particularly in classroom and family settings.
Professional activities include presentations at major international conferences (EARLI, SAA, ISPA), service on the PhD council of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and membership in the Educational Committee of the Interuniversity Centre of Educational Sciences (ICO). She completed a visiting research period at the University of Konstanz (Germany) under Prof. Thomas Goetz in 2018.
Her technical proficiency encompasses advanced statistical software (MLwiN, Mplus, HLM, AMOS, SPSS, R) for multilevel and structural equation modeling. Current media engagements include expert commentary on teacher emotional experiences and research dissemination regarding parent-adolescent relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic.
