[ { "name": "Pim Cuijpers", "lastName": "Cuijpers", "position": "Scientific Director", "affiliation": "Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam", "image": "assets/team/maintenance-team/pim.webp", "link": "https://www.pimcuijpers.com/blog/", "pointerEvents": "pointer-events: revert;", "description": "Pim Cuijpers. Ph.D. is professor emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is also director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions in Amsterdam.

He is specialised in conducting randomised controlled trials and meta-analyses on prevention and psychological treatments of common mental disorders across the life span. Much of his work is aimed at prevention of mental disorders, psychological treatments of depression and anxiety disorders, and Internet-delivered treatments." }, { "name": "Annemieke van Straten", "lastName": "van Straten", "position": "Managing Director", "affiliation": "Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam", "image": "assets/team/maintenance-team/annemieke.webp", "link": "https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/annemieke-van-straten", "pointerEvents": "pointer-events: revert;", "description": "Annemieke van Straten is psychologist and epidemiologist, professor of Clinical Psychology and head of the section Clinical Psychology within the department of Clincial, Neuro and Developmental Psychology. With her work she wants to contribute to the reduction of disease burden caused by mental disorders. Her work therefore focuses mainly om mental disorders which are common in the population such as insomnia disorder and depression. She wants good quality treatments to be widely available and therefore her work concentrates on brief (e-health) treatments delivered in the general population, general practices or low intensity mental health services." }, { "name": "Mathias Harrer", "lastName": "Harrer", "position": "Lead Research Software Engineer", "affiliation": "Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam", "image": "assets/team/maintenance-team/mathias-3.webp", "link": "https://www.mharrer.dev", "pointerEvents": "pointer-events: revert;", "description": "Mathias Harrer is an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences. His work focuses on using technology and biostatistical methods to improve psychological interventions for mental disorders. His research interests include predictive modeling, digital interventions, meta-epidemiological research, evidence synthesis methods, and statistical software development.

Mathias is the developer and maintainer of the Metapsy infrastructure, embedded in the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions. Metapsy is a comprehensive system of living open databases and tailored software that allows for rapid evidence generation in psychological treatment research across all major mental disorders. He is also coordinator of the Meta-Analytic Psychotherapy and Evidence Synthesis (META-SYN) Group within the German Society for Psychology (DGPs). Mathias is the maintainer of the {dmetar}, {metapsyTools}, and {metapsyData} packages in R." }, { "name": "Eirini Karyotaki", "lastName": "Karyotaki", "position": "Core Team (IPD)", "affiliation": "University of Amsterdam", "image": "assets/team/maintenance-team/karyotaki-eirini.webp", "link": "https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/k/a/e.karyotaki/e.karyotaki.html", "pointerEvents": "pointer-events: revert;", "description": "Eirini Karyotaki is a Full Professor of Psychopathology and Precision Interventions at the department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a visiting fellow at the department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, VU Amsterdam (VUA). Her research focuses on examining the effectiveness of psychotherapy in treating depression, with a special interest in alternative intervention delivery modes like digital interventions and task-sharing.

Her research has focused on novel ways of analysing individual patient data to answer questions such as who benefits most from what type of treatment (precision medicine). Dr. Karyotaki has specialised in conducting systematic reviews, including conventional and individual participant data meta-analyses, but also has performed epidemiological, effectiveness, and implementation research." }, { "name": "Wouter van Ballegooijen", "lastName": "van Ballegooijen", "position": "Core Team (Methodology)", "affiliation": "VU & Amsterdam UMC", "image": "assets/team/maintenance-team/wouter2.webp", "link": "https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/wouter-van-ballegooijen", "pointerEvents": "pointer-events: revert;", "description": "Wouter is an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, as well as senior researcher and PI at Amsterdam UMC.

Within Metapsy, Wouter heads the suicide prevention databases and is a core team member specialising in methodology. Wouter's research focuses on suicide prevention in mental healthcare." }, { "name": "Antonia Sprenger", "lastName": "Sprenger", "position": "Database Management", "affiliation": "Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam", "image": "assets/team/maintenance-team/antonia.webp", "link": "http://www.ismg.ovgu.de/ismg/en/Institute/Team/Sprenger.html", "pointerEvents": "pointer-events: revert;", "description": "Antonia A. Sprenger is a research associate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Magdeburg. Antonia serves as the main database manager for the Metapsy project." }, { "name": "Clara Miguel Sanz", "lastName": "Miguel Sanz", "position": "Database Management", "affiliation": "VU & Université Paris Cité", "image": "assets/team/maintenance-team/clara2.webp", "link": "https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/clara-miguel-sanz-2", "pointerEvents": "pointer-events: revert;", "description": "Clara Miguel Sanz is a researcher in Clinical Psychology at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on meta-research, evidence synthesis, and psychological interventions, with a particular emphasis on depression and functioning." }, { "name": "Marketa Ciharova", "lastName": "Ciharova", "position": "Database Management", "affiliation": "Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam", "image": "assets/team/maintenance-team/marketa.webp", "link": "https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/marketa-ciharova", "pointerEvents": "pointer-events: revert;", "description": "Marketa Ciharova is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Clinical Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is also affiliated with the Amsterdam Public Health (APH) research institute, contributing to both the Digital Health and Mental Health programs.

Her research focuses on the effectiveness of digital interventions for mental disorders, with a particular emphasis on treatment efficiency and precision psychology. She recently completed her PhD thesis titled 'From Treatment Efficiency to Precision Psychology: Mixed-Method Research on Innovation in Psychological Interventions for Common Mental Disorders' and has co-authored meta-analytic syntheses on digital interventions for mental disorders." }, { "name": "Paula Kuper", "lastName": "Kuper", "position": "Research Software Engineer", "affiliation": "University of Magdeburg", "image": "assets/team/maintenance-team/paula.webp", "link": "http://www.ismg.ovgu.de/ismg/en/Institute/Team/Kuper.html", "pointerEvents": "pointer-events: revert;", "description": "Paula Kuper is a Research Associate at the University of Magdeburg and a contributor to the Metapsy project." } ]