Marlies Tierens (PhD) has been a lecturer-researcher in the People and Well-being research group since 2012. She has expertise in intelligence measurement, cognitive (highly) giftedness, test development and adaptation.
Marlies Tierens (PhD) is a researcher at the People and Well-being research group and a lecturer in psychodiagnostics at the Applied Psychology programme at Thomas More. She sits on the Testing Committee of the Belgian Federation of Psychologists and chairs the Flemish Forum for Diagnostics (VFD).
She obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences on trauma treatment in young traffic victims at Ghent University, in collaboration with child and adolescent psychiatry UZGent. In her current research, she contributes to the development of the COVAT series, a series of Dutch-language cognitive ability tests for children, adolescents and adults based on the CHC model (Basic version, COVAT 9½-20 and COVAT-3).
She gives training courses on diagnostics and how the CHC model can translate into advice for practice.
She works part-time as an independent psychologist where she mainly focuses on psychodiagnostics for (suspected) cognitive giftedness. She obtained the certificate expert in giftedness at the Gifted Academy (Hoogbloeier).