A Unique and Rigorous Data Platform for Depression Screening Research

Name: Pim Cuijpers, PhD

Email: p.cuijpers@vu.nl

Position: 

Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Head of the Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology

Biography:

Pim Cuijpers is specialised in conducting randomised controlled trials and meta-analyses on prevention and psychological treatments of common mental disorders. Much of his work is aimed at prevention of mental disorders, psychological treatments of depression and anxiety disorders, and Internet-delivered treatments. Pim Cuijpers has published more than 850 peer-reviewed papers, chapters, reports and professional publications, including more than 650 papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is on the Thomson-Reuter Web of Science lists of the ‘highly cited researchers’ since the first edition of this list in 2014 (http://highlycited.com/) and has an h-index of >90 (web of science). According to Expertscape, an organisation that ranks researchers by their expertise in biomedial topics, professor Cuijpers is the world’s number one top expert on depression (http://expertscape.com/ex/depression).