Personalia:

• Adrianus Vermeer, born 13 august 1936 in Utrecht (NL), 1.78 m, 74 kg.
• Appointed ‘Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau’ on April 9, 2009.

Training:

• Gymnasium B (Apeldoorn, 1957)
• School of Military Physical Education (Hooghalen, 1958)
• Teacher College of Physical Education (Arnhem, 1963)
• MSc Educational Sciences (Free University Amsterdam, 1972)
• PhD Social Sciences (Free University Amsterdam, 1983); Thesis:Movement and Child Rehabilitation

Jobs:

• Sport instructor Dutch Army (1958-1959)
• Teacher of physical education in primary and secondary schools (1963-1973)
• Lecturer pedagogics and didactics of physical education for young children in Teacher College (1966-1971)
• Assistent professor Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Department of Educational Sciences, Free University Amsterdam (1973-1985)
• Ibidem Associate professor (1986-1997)
• Professor in Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University (1991-1997)
• Professor in Special Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University (from 1997-2001), since 2001 professor-emeritus.
• Guest Professor European Masters Degree in Adapted Physical Activity, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Katholic University Leuven, Belgium (from 1991)
• Visiting Professor, Faculty of Physical Education and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland (1993)
• Guest Lecturer Facultät für Sport- und Gesundheidtwissenschaft, Technische Universität München, Deutschland (2007-heute)

PhD supervision:

• Baardman: Imaginary ugliness in neurotic patients (1989)
• Bosscher: Running therapy in depressed patients (1991)
• Droes: Movement therapy in SDAT patients (1991)
• Schopman: Math development in children with learning problems (1998)
• Van Veldhoven: Effects of physical activity in children with asthma (1998)
• Ketelaar: Functional physiotherapy in children with cerebral palsy (1999)
• Leemrijse: Effects of motor training in clumsy children (1999)
• Lauteslager: Motor development in young children with Down Syndrome (2000)
• Stegeman: Concepts in actual school physical education (2000)
• De Koning: Learning problems in children in primary school (2000)
• Van Gastel: Quality of structural aspects of care (2000)
• Custers: Dutch adaptation of the PEDI (2001)
• Kroesbergen: Effects of math intervention in young children (2002)
• Swennenhuis: Quality of the proces of care (2003)
• Hammink: Psychomotor diagnostics in child psychiatry (2003)
• Elias: Development of perceived competence in children with mildly mental retardation (2003)
• Van Nieuwenhuizen: Behavioural disorders in children with mildly mental retardation (2003)
• Wassenberg: Development of norms for the PEDI (2004)
• Moonen: Experiences of treatment in children with mild mental retardation and concuct disorders (2004)
• Theiss (Ger): Sebst-wahrgenommene Kompetenz und soxiale Akzeptanz bei Personen mit geistiger Behinderung (2004)
• Schwarz (Ger): Die selbstwahrgenommene Kompetenz von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit frühkindlicher Hirnschädigung (Cerebral Parese) (2004)
• Getz (Israel): Effects of swimming in children with cerebral palsy (2004)
• Hey: Grondslagen van het bewegingsonderwijs (2005)
• Siebes: Processes of Care in Paediatric Rehabilitation (2006)
• Simmerl (Ger): Wirkungen von Sporttherapie auf kognitive und motorische Fähigkeiten bei Erwachsenen mit geistiger Behinderung (2009)
• Meier (Schweiz): Sporting Role Models as Potential Catalysts to Facilitate Empowerment and Tackle Gender Issues: An Empirical Study in Malawi, Zambia and South Africa (2013)
• Van Westrhenen (Zuid-Afrika): The Art of Healing: Traumatic Stress and Creative Therapy in South Africa (2017)

National memberships:

• Advisor and chairperson Curatorium Parc Spelderholt, a living community for persons with functional limitations
• Advisory board Dutch Down’s Syndrome Foundation
• Advisory board for Research ‘De Hondsberg’, Centre for children with mild mental retardation and behavioural disorders
• Advisory board for Research ‘s Heeren Loo, foundation for care for persons with intellectual disabilities
• Advisory board Foundation for families with a severe disabled child
• Advisory board Rehabilitation Research, ‘Heliomare’ Rehabilitation Centre
• Chairman of the board of the CEDER-schools for secondary education in Amsterdam and surroundings
• Chairman of the board of trusties of IPSE/De Bruggen, providing institutional care for persons with intellectual disabilities
• Consultant Childhood Disabilities in Developing Countries of the Bisschop Bekkers Institute
• Chairman Dutch Association for Human Movement Sciences
• External Committee of Investigation ‘Incidents Koraal Groep’ (Care for persons with intellectual disabilities)
• Initiator and ‘mail lecturer’ Masterclass for staff of disabality care organizations, organized by the VGN (Dutch Society for Disability Care)
• Initiator and ‘mail lecturer’ Masterclass for Boards of institutes for disability care, organized by the VGN
• Initiator and ‘mail lecturer’ Masterclass for staff Ndlovu Care Group, Elandsdoorn, South Africa
• Jury Sports Medicine Award
• Jury Theses Intellectual Disability Award
• Member Scientific Board Royal Society of Physical Therapy
• Member Ministerial Programme Committee ZonMw Rehabilitation Medicine
• Member Ministerial Programme Committee ZonMw Research into Visual Disabilities
• Ad hoc Member Ministerial Programme Committee ZonMw Research into Intellectual Disabilities
• Member Scientific Society for Rehabilitation Medicine

International memberships:

• Advisory Board RESPO DS-DI, Recreation and Sports for the Disabled Organization
• Board of officers European Association for Research into Adapted Physical Activity
• Coordinating Group European Network of Sport Sciences in Higher Education
• Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013 (end 2013)
• Research in RSA (since 2001)

Editorships/Reviewer:

• Ad hoc reviewer International Journal of Health Education
• Ad hoc Reviewer Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
• Chief Edititor Bewegen & Hulpverlening [Movement & Health Care]
• Associate editor Geneeskunde & Sport [Dutch Journal for Sports Medicine]
• Associate editor Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Kinderrevalidatie [Dutch Journal for Child Rehabilitation]

Faculty duties (Utrecht University):

• Teaching Director of the Masters Degree Programme in Educational Sciences
• Chairman of the Institute for Educational Sciences
• Chairman of the Disciplinary Board ‘General Pedagogy and Special Education’
• Member of the Managemant team of the Propaedeutic Programme Social Sciences
• Departemental coordinator International Affairs
• Member of the Institute for the Study of Education and Human Development (ISED)
• Board member ISED-Utrecht

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