Core Maintenance Team
Director and maintainers of the Metapsy infrastructure
The People Behind Metapsy
Director and maintainers of the Metapsy infrastructure.
Leading field experts curating the living databases.
Expert advisors providing strategic guidance and oversight.
Individuals with lived experience help co-create our infrastructure.
Our team brings together experts from various fields including clinical psychology, biostatistics, and research methodology.
Together with individuals with lived experience, we aim to advance the field of meta-analytic research and make evidence-based knowledge on mental health interventions more accessible.
Core Maintenance Team
Principal Investigators
Advisory Board
Lived Experience Panel
Director and maintainers of the Metapsy infrastructure
Pim Cuijpers
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Scientific Director
Annemieke van Straten
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Managing Director
Mathias Harrer
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Lead Research Software Engineer
Eirini Karyotaki
University of Amsterdam
Core Team (IPD)
Wouter van Ballegooijen
VU & Amsterdam UMC
Core Team (Methodology)
Antonia Sprenger
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Database Management
Clara Miguel Sanz
VU & Université Paris Cité
Database Management
Marketa Ciharova
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Database Management
Paula Kuper
University of Magdeburg
Research Software Engineer
Core Maintenance Team
Principal Investigators
Advisory Board
Lived Experience Panel
Field experts curating the living databases
Davide Papola
University of Verona
Psychological Treatment of Common Anxiety Disorders
Pim Cuijpers
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Psychological Treatment of Depression
Dan J. Stein
University of Cape Town
Treatment for Health Anxiety
Paula P. Schnurr
National Center for PTSD, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Treatment of PTSD
Ioana A. Cristea
University of Padova
Meta-Research, Psychological Treatment of BPD, Bottom-Up Treatments
Heleen Riper
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Psychological Interventions for Alcohol Use
Ted Satterthwaite
University of Pennsylvania
Psychedelic Treatments
J. Cobb Scott
University of Pennsylvania
Psychedelic Treatments
Clara Miguel Sanz
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Psychological Treatment of Depression
Eirini Karyotaki
University of Amsterdam
Psychological Treatment of Depression
Mieke Schulte
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Psychological Interventions for Alcohol Use
Marit Sijbrandij
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Prevention of PTSD
Jessica L. Hamblen
National Center for PTSD, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Treatment of PTSD
Jake Linardon
Deakin University
Psychological Treatment of Eating Disorders
Christine Lochner
Stellenbosch University
OCD-Spectrum Disorders
Claudia Buntrock
University of Magdeburg
Indicated Prevention of Depression
Tara Donker
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Freiburg
Psychological Treatment of Phobias
Emma Motrico
University of Sevilla
E-Perinatal Prevention of Depression
Wouter van Ballegooijen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Suicide Prevention
Paula von Spreckelsen
113 Suicide Prevention & Amsterdam UMC
Suicide Prevention
Djordje Basic
TU Munich
Psychological Treatment of Psychosis
Samuel Acuff
Massachusetts General Hospital
Psychological Treatment for Substance Use
Yuki Furukawa
TU Munich & Tokyo University
Psychological Treatment of Insomnia
Masatsugu Sakata
Nagoya City University
Psychological Treatment of Insomnia
Annemieke van Straten
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Psychological Treatment of Insomnia
Yingying Wang
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Psychological Treatment of OCD and Health Anxiety
Parker Singleton
University of Pennsylvania
Psychedelic Treatments
Maya E. O'Neil
Portland VA, Oregon Health & Science University
Suicide Prevention
Rory A. Pfund
The University of Memphis
Treatments for Problem Gambling
Marketa Ciharova
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Psychological Treatment of Depression
Antonia Sprenger
University of Magdeburg
Indicated Prevention of Depression
Soledad Quero
University Jaume I
Psychological Treatment of Prolonged Grief
Aaron Keshen
Dalhousie University
Psychological Treatment of Eating Disorders
Frederic Maas genannt Bermpohl
University of Wuppertal
Psychological Treatment for Bodily Distress
Alexandra Martin
University of Wuppertal
Psychological Treatment for Bodily Distress
Lingyao Tong
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Self-Guided Interventions for Depression
Fabrizio Visconti
University of Padova
Psychological Treatment of BPD
Irene Gómez Gómez
Loyola University
E-Perinatal Prevention of Depression
Jorge Grimaldos García
University Jaume I
Treatment of Prolonged Grief
Amanda Díaz García
University of Zaragoza
Transdiagnostic Treatment of Depression & Anxiety
Core Maintenance Team
Principal Investigators
Advisory Board
Lived Experience Panel
Expert advisors providing strategic guidance and oversight
Toshi A. Furukawa
University of Kyoto
Advisory Board Chair
Stefan Leucht
Technical University of Munich
Evidence-Based Mental Health
Andrea Cipriani
Oxford University
Evidence-Based Mental Health
Wolfgang Viechtbauer
University of Maastricht
Evidence Synthesis Methods & Open Science
Board Member 5
To Be Announced
Meta-Epidemiology
Mark van Ommeren
World Health Organization
Global Mental Health (Observer)
Core Maintenance Team
Principal Investigators
Advisory Board
Lived Experience Panel
Individuals with lived experience who co-create our infrastructure
Metapsy has partnered with the MIND Foundation (Stichting MIND). MIND is a Dutch non-profit organization that works to improve mental health in society and to strengthen the rights of people with psychological problems and their relatives.
As part of this collaboration, we aim to further improve the usefulness and accessibility of the Metapsy infrastructure for individuals with lived experience of mental health problems, and their loved ones.
Lived experience experts of MIND and members of the Metapsy core team convene in regular intervals as well as ad-hoc sessions to discuss the future development of the Metapsy ecosystem, and provide their own insights.
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