Prof. dr. Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij is Professor in Applied Statistics at the Department of Methodology and Statistics of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She received a Master in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Dyadic processes of parents grieving their child in Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University.
She has worked as statistical consultant on multilevel analysis for numerous social science research projects.
She has been teaching courses on Multilevel Analysis on both Graduate and Undergraduate level. These courses include Multilevel for Research Masters, ML Minor courses and a Multilevel Summer School at Utrecht University, and PhD courses for several institutes including the KLI (Research Institute for Social Psychology), the EPP (Research Institute for PsychoPathology) and the Erasmus University.