After receiving her Ph.D. from Leiden University in 2011, she has spent 2,5 years as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University. In her research Dietsje takes a developmental cognitive neuroscience approach to better understand learning and skill acquisition in children. Her doctoral research focused on the development and acquisition of foundational cognitive abilities like working memory, in relation to changes in the underlying brain mechanisms. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she has extended this line of work into the domain of educational neuroscience, investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms that contribute to math learning in childhood. Dietsje's future work will focus on individual differences and neurocognitive development in relation to the acquisition of math and reading comprehension skills in children.