Who are we?

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

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

PhD Students:

•  Junus van der Wal ('Understanding the dynamics of depression in high-risk urban populations using a complex systems approach')

•    Hanan Bozhar ('Understanding affective and addictive disorders in adolescents in an urban background using a life-course complex systems approach') [involved as co-director]

•  Karoline Huth ('Networks of addiction and depression in multi-ethnic urban settings') [involved as co-director]

• Amber Koert ('Exercise training and the prevention of stress in high-risk adolescents')  [involved as co-director]

§   Lotte Brinkhof ('Promoting preventive interventions based on resilience network for aging individuals in urban settings')  [involved as co-director]

Email: c.l.bockting@amsterdamumc.nl

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

Project Applicants: dr. Susanne de Rooij (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC); dr. Helle Larsen (FMG)

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

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

Project Applicants: dr. Harm Krugers (FNWI); prof. dr. Richard Ridderinkhof (FMG)

Project Team: prof. dr. Jaap Murre; dr. Sanne de Wit, prof. dr. Claudi Bockting, prof. dr. Reinout Wiers

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

PI: Qualitative and interpretive approaches to the social context of interventions, perceptions of problems and interventions and involvement of stakeholders

Email: c.broer@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI

PhD Student: Vacancy [More information TBA]

Email: s.brul@uva.nl

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

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

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

Project Applicants: dr. Michael Lees (FNWI); dr. Sacha Epskamp (FMG)

Project Team: prof. dr. Han van der Maas, prof. dr. Peter Sloot, prof. dr. Reinout Wiers

UMH Management team

Email: assistent.umh@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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

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

PI: Autonomy and psychiatric disorders

PhD Student: Karoline Huth

Email: r.j.vanholst@amsterdamumc.nl

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

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

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

Project applicants: Dr. Anja Lok, Prof. dr. Stanley Brul

Faculty of Science, FNWI SILS, BP Group

PhD student: Lotte Brinkhof

Email: H.Krugers@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

PhD Student: Hanan Bozhar

Email: H.Larsen@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI, Informatics

PhD Student: Maarten van den Ende

Email: M.H.Lees@uva.nl

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

PhD Students: Junus van der Wal, Hanan Bozhar, Vera Korenblik

Email: a.lok@amsterdamumc.nl

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

Supervisor: Dr. Rixt van der Veen, UvA

Email: e.m.bouwman3@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Programme group Psychological Methods

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

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

Project Applicants: prof. dr. Reinout Wiers (FMG); prof. dr. Julia van Weert (FMG)

Project Team: dr. Sacha Epskamp; dr. Barbara Schouten, prof. dr. Reinout Wiers

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

PhD Student: Karoline Huth ('Networks of addiction and depression in multi-ethnic urban settings')

Email: M.Marsman@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Programme group: Preventive Youth Care

Email: L.S.deMooij@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI-SILS

PhD Student: Amber Koert

Email: j.d.mul@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

PhD student: Lotte Brinkhof

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

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

PI: Social determinant of mental health problems at macro level

PhD Student: Junus van der Wal

Email: m.nicolaou@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG, Developmental psychopathology

PI: Interventions in a group-setting, including school- and family setting

Email: b.castro@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Programme group: Preventive Youth Care

Email: G.J.Overbeek@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

PhD Student: Lotte Brinkhof

Email: k.r.ridderinkhof@uva.nl

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

PhD student: Hanan Bozhar

Email: s.r.derooij@amsterdamumc.nl

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

PhD Student: Amber

Email: a.g.schrantee@amsterdamumc.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

PI: Adapting and testing interventions for vulnerable groups, including ethnic minorities

PhD Student: Alessandra Mansueto

Email: B.C.Schouten@uva.nl

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

PI: Ethnicity and common mental health problems

PhD Student: Junus van der Wal

Email: k.stronks@amsterdamumc.nl

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

Project Applicants: prof. dr. Claudi Bockting (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC); prof. dr. Karien Stronks (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC)

Project Team: dr. Mary Nicolaou, dr. Anja Lok, prof. dr. Claudi Bockting

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, Institute for Advanced Studies

TT: Assistant Professor in Data-driven Systems Dynamics

Email: vvvasconcelos@gmail.com

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG-PSY

PhD student: Lotte Brinkhof

Email: S.deWit@uva.nl

Faculty of Science, FNWI

​PI: The impact of (early) life experiences on coping in a complex environment

Email: r.vanderveen@uva.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FMG

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

Email: g.veltkamp@uva.nl

PhD Project: Working Out Urban Stress

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

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

UMH Management team

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