Her recently finished PhD-dissertation focuses on daily life of young Muslim women in kickboxing and explores the process of acquiring bodily knowledge and skills as a means of (re-)producing notions of self and senses of belonging. In 2017, she graduated (magna cum laude) on her PhD thesis, titled 'Young Muslim Women in Kickboxing: Learning and Belonging', at the Berlin Graduate School for Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin. Jasmijn studied cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam where she graduated in 2009 with a MA thesis on beauty practices among high-class women in Casablanca, Morocco.