Our Team

Martin Dechant

Martin specialises in using digital technology and gaming to help people overcome social anxiety. His research explores how we can leverage the digital tools people already love to better understand and support mental health challenges.

Ciarán O’Driscoll

Ciarán specialises in digital mental health solutions, focusing on brief, targeted interventions and AI chatbots that provide real-time support. His research also examines how mental health technology can reach everyone equally, working to bridge the digital divide.

Bettina Moltrecht

Bettina focuses on creating digital tools that help us better understand mental health patterns and trends. She also develops online programmes designed to support families and help people better manage their emotions in healthy ways.

Our Research Network

The Hub aims to bring together researchers from various fields

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Bettina Moltrect	Social Research Institute	Developmental Psychopathology, Emotion Regulation, Mobile Apps, School-Based Interventions, Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Martin Dechant	UCLIC and Clinical Educational Health Psychology (CEHP)	Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Chatbots, Virtual Reality (VR), Social Anxiety, Game-Based Assessment, Youth Mental Health.
Ciarán O'Driscoll	Clinical Educational Health Psychology (CEHP)	Ecological Momentary Interventions, Digital inequity, Symptom Dynamics, just in time interventions, CBT
Amid Ayobi	UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC)	Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Digital Health, Personal Informatics, Social Virtual Reality (VR), User Engagement, Self-Tracking, Chronic Conditions
Aneesha Singh	UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC)	Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Behaviour Change, Digital Health, Affective Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Chronic Pain, Wearable Devices
Liam Mason	Clinical Educational Health Psychology (CEHP)	Computational Psychiatry, Smartphone-Based Assessment, Affective Processes, Real-Time Data, Ecological Momentary Assessment.
Argyris Stringaris	Clinical Educational Health Psychology (CEHP)	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Adolescent Mental Health.
Joshua Buckman	Clinical Educational Health Psychology (CEHP)	Clinical Psychology, Internet-Delivered CBT (iCBT), Depression, Anxiety, Psychological Therapies, Real-World Evidence, Large-Scale Data Analysis.
Georgina Krebs	Clinical Educational Health Psychology (CEHP)	Adolescent Mental Health, Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Internet-Delivered CBT (iCBT), Adolescents, Social Media
Marc Tibber	Clinical Educational Health Psychology (CEHP)	Adolescent Mental Health, Social Media, Internet Interventions, Social Connection.
John King	Clinical Educational Health Psychology (CEHP)	Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience, Virtual Reality (VR), Cognitive Assessment, PTSD, Intrusive Memories, Spatial Memory, Immersive Environments
Talya Greene	Clinical Educational Health Psychology (CEHP)	Implementation Science, Digital Mental Health, Young People, Ethics, Community Mental Health Services, Data Protection, Intervention Safety.

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