Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), dept. Psychiatry / IAS

PI: Micro factors and interventions in common mental health problems and severe psychiatric disorders

Email: c.l.bockting@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

PI: Developing and testing personalized interventions

PhD Students: Alessandra Mansueto, Hanan Bozar, Lotte Brinkhof, Maarten van den Ende, Karoline Huth

Email: R.W.H.J.Wiers@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI SILS, Brain Plasticity Group

PhD student: Lotte Brinkhof

Email: H.Krugers@uva.nl

Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, FMG

Email: J.C.M.vanWeert@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI-IvI

Email: A.G.Hoekstra@uva.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC)

Email: s.e.lafleur@amsterdamumc.nl

Email: l.w.westerveld@amsterdamumc.nl and coordinator-umh@uva.nl

Email: assistent.umh@amsterdamumc.nl

PhD Project: Living in a complex environment: effects of (early) life context and drug exposure on social status and stress coping behavior. 

Project Team: dr. Rixt van der Veen (FNWI), prof. dr. Paul Lucassen (FNWI), prof. dr. Reinout Wiers (FMG)

Email: e.m.bouwman3@uva.nl

PhD Project: Understanding affective and addictive disorders in adolescents in an urban background using a life-course complex systems approach

Project Team: dr. Susanne de Rooij, dr. Helle Larsen; dr. Tanja Vrijkotte, dr. Anja Lok, prof. dr. Claudi Bockting

Email: h.bozhar@amsterdamumc.nl

PhD Project: Promoting preventive interventions based on resilience network for aging individuals in urban settings

Project Team: prof. dr. Jaap Murre; dr. Sanne de Wit, prof. dr. Claudi Bockting, prof. dr. Reinout Wiers, dr. Harm Krugers (FNWI); prof. dr. Richard Ridderinkhof (FMG)

Email: l.p.brinkhof@uva.nl

PhD Project: Computational modelling of psychological and social dynamics in urban mental health conditions: the case of addictive substance use

Project Team: prof. dr. Han van der Maas, prof. dr. Peter Sloot, prof. dr. Reinout Wiers; dr. Michael Lees (FNWI); dr. Sacha Epskamp (FMG)

Email: m.w.j.vandenende@uva.nl

PhD Project: From trends to theories in Urban Mental Health 

Project Team: prof. dr. Han van der Maas, prof. dr. Denny Borsboom, prof. dr. Reinout Wiers; dr. Sacha Epskamp (FMG)

Email: a.t.k.finnemann@uva.nl

PhD Project: Networks of addiction and depression in multi-ethnic urban settings

Project Team: dr. Ruth van Holst (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC), dr. Judy Luigjes (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC), dr. Maarten Marsman (FMG)

Email: k.b.s.huth@uva.nl

PhD Project: Understanding and targeting brain-gut communication in depression.

Project Team: dr. Anja Lok, dr. Aniko Korosi, Prof. dr. Stanley Brul, Prof. dr. Claudi Bockting

Email: v.korenblik@uva.nl

PhD Project: Artificial Intelligence for the Personalization of Mental Health Interventations

Project Team: Prof. dr. Mark Hoogendoorn (Vrije Universiteit), prof. dr. Reinout Wiers (FMG), prof. dr. Claudi Bockting (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC)

Email: r.a.vander.linden@vu.nl

PhD Project: Using network science to study familiar and individual mental health issues in urban settings

Project Team: dr. Sacha Epskamp; dr. Barbara Schouten, prof. dr. Reinout Wiers;  prof. dr. Julia van Weert (FMG)

Email: a.c.mansueto@uva.nl

PhD Project: Working Out Urban Stress

Project Applicants: dr. Joram Mul (FNWI-SILS); dr. Anouk Schrantee (Amsterdam UMC, Location AMC -Radiology & Nuclear Medicine)

Project Team: prof. dr. Paul Lucassen, prof. dr. Claudi Bockting

Email: a.h.vuuregge@uva.nl

PhD Project:

Project Team: prof. dr. Claudi Bockting

Email: n.wilts@amsterdamumc.nl

PhD Project: Designing Social Connection: Computer Modeling to Establish Quality Social Connections in Urban Mental Health Interventions

Project Team: dr. Nadia van der Spek (Amsterdam UMC, Psychiatry), dr. Mike Lees (FNWI, Informatics Institute)

Email: s.madhuramnath@amsterdamumc.nl

PhD Project: STRIDE-4-MH Project – Stress Tolerance and Resilience by Integrating Digital and Exercise training-based interventions for Mental Health of Dutch students

Project Team: Dr. Joram Mul (FNWI-SILS, Fit Brain Lab and Brain Plasticity group), Dr. Sanne de Wit (FMG, Clinical Psychology and Habit Lab), Dr. Sascha Struijs, (Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit)

Email: to follow after start in 2025

PhD Project: Innovating interventions: A genetically informed multi-level framework for identifying and addressing substance (ab)use risk factors

Project Team: Prof. dr. Karin Verweij (AUMC, Psychiatry), Dr. Saar Mollen (FMG, Communication Science), Dr. Margot van de Weijer (AUMC, Psychiatry)

Email: e.a.poort@amsterdamumc.nl

PhD Project: Understanding the Dynamics of Suicide: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Inform Intervention Strategies in an Urban Context

Project Team: Dr. Derek de Beurs (FMG, Clinical Psychology), Dr. Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya (FNWI, Informatics Institute)

Email: v.epelbaum@uva.nl

PhD Project: MIND-CHAT: May I help you? An Intervention for Non-suicidal self-injury and Depression through a culturally-sensitive Chatbot

Project Team: Dr. Nida Gizem Yilmaz (FMG, Communication Science), Prof. dr. Ellen Smets (AUMC, Medical Psychology and Amsterdam Public Health), Dr. Annemiek Linn (FMG, Health Communication)

Email: a.tsoukaneli@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Email: r.freichel@uva.nl

Projects: Early intervention of suicidality in young people; dementia and mental health in urban-dwelling older adults.

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), dept. of Psychiatry

Email: a.junus@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Email: L.S.deMooij@uva.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), Radiology & Nuclear Medicine)

Email: a.g.schrantee@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

Email: d.debeurs@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG, group: Political Sociology: Power, Place and Difference

Email: c.broer@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI

Email: s.brul@uva.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), dept. Psychiatry

Email: a.o.j.cramer@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), dept. Psychiatry

Email: r.j.vanholst@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI-IvI

Email: v.krzhizhanovskaya@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

Email: H.Larsen@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI, Informatics

Email: M.H.Lees@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-Health Communication

Email: a.j.linn@uva.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), Psychiatry

Email: a.lok@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), Psychiatry

Email: j.luigjes@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Email: H.L.J.vanderMaas@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

Email: M.Marsman@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-Communication Science

Email: s.mollen@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI-SILS

Email: j.d.mul@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

Email: J.M.J.Murre@uva.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), Public Health

Email: m.nicolaou@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG, Developmental psychopathology

Email: b.castro@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Email: G.J.Overbeek@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

Email: k.r.ridderinkhof@uva.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), Epidemiology and Data Science

Email: s.r.derooij@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

Email: B.C.Schouten@uva.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), dept. Medical Psychology and Amsterdam Public Health

Email: e.m.smets@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI-SILS

Email: m.p.smidt@uva.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), dept. Psychiatry

Email: n.vanderspek@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), dept. , Public Health

UMH Board member 2019 - 2023

Email: k.stronks@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences (Vrije Universiteit), Clinical Psychology

Email: s.y.struijs@vu.nl

Faculty of Science, Institute for Advanced Studies

Email: vvvasconcelos@gmail.com

Faculty of Science, FNWI

Email: r.vanderveen@uva.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), dept. Psychiatry

Email: karin.verweij@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), dept. Psychiatry

Email: m.p.vandeweijer@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

Email: S.deWit@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-Communication Science

Email: n.g.yilmaz@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI, Brain Plasticity Group

UMH Board member 2019 - 2024

Email: P.J.Lucassen@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI, Informatics Institute

UMH Board member 2019 - 2023

Email: P.M.A.Sloot@uva.nl

PhD Project: Understanding the dynamics of depression in high-risk urban populations using a complex systems approach

Project Team: prof. dr. Claudi Bockting (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC); prof. dr. Karien Stronks (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC); dr. Mary Nicolaou, dr. Anja Lok

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG

PI: Social context of interventions, perceptions of problems and interventions and involvement of stakeholders