Margaret Stroebe is Associate Professor of Psychology at Utrecht University, Department of Clinical Psycholoy,The Netherlands.

Her major research interest is the study of reactions to interpersonal loss, bereavement, focusing on theoretical approaches to grief and grieving, interactive patterns of coping, and the efficacy of bereavement intervention.

Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut developed the dual process model of coping with bereavement.

She is the editor (with Robert Hansson, Wolfgang Stroebe and Henk Schut) of the "Handbook of Bereavement Research: Consequences, Coping and Care" (2001), and she is coauthor (with Robert Hansson) of “Bereavement in Later Life: Coping, Adaptation, and Developmental Influences” (2007).

Margaret Stroebe is an honorary member of ADEC - Association of Death Education and Counseling, of the Bereavement Research Forum, and of IWG - International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement.

Recently, she received and honorary degree of the Louvain-la-Neuve University, Belgium, and in 2002 she received the Scientific Research Award of the American Association of Death Education and Counseling.