Marieke Thurlings is an Associate Professor in the Learning Sciences at Eindhoven School of Education (ESoE), Eindhoven University of Technology. Her areas of expertise include collaborative teacher professional development, both face-to-face and online, feedback, professional learning communities and systematic literature reviews. Her research covers interaction processes between teachers, and she aims to further develop methodologies in educational research. Both in teaching and in research, I am interested in how (student) teachers can be supported to develop their academic, inquiry-based attitude.

She is the responsible teacher of practice-based research, conducted by the master students of ESoE. She supervises postdoctoral and PhD projects. In the academic year 2024-25, she participates in the Educational Leadership Program (EWUU-alliance).

From 2015-2024, Marieke Thurlings was assistent professor at Eindhoven School of Education. She was responsible teacher for practice-based research courses in the master program; and involved in curriculum redesign of the master program. She co-supervised several PhD teachers; and was the chairperson of the program committee.

From 2013-2015 Marieke Thurlings was a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven School of Education where she conducted a review study, based on a grant by NWO/PROO grant, on peer teacher professional development, that aims to reveal which factors make this into a success and which effects it has. She also conducted several innovation projects that aimed to enhance TU/e teachers' teaching skills.

She received her PhD  from LOOK (Wetenschappelijk Centrum Leraren Onderzoek; Scientific Centre for Teacher Research, at the Dutch Open University) in 2012 where she examined feedback processes among teachers in face-to-face and online peer coaching as part of their professional development. She also holds an MSc and BSc in educational studies from Leiden University.