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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.


He has also published on several other research topics, including global mental health and student mental health. Pim Cuijpers has published more than 1,350 peer-reviewed papers, chapters, reports and professional publications, including more than a 1,100 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/). In Web of Science (Clarivate InCites Essential Science Indicators) he is currently ranked number 1 in the field of psychiatry/psychology as top author. 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 research on psychotherapy, on cognitive behavioral therapy, the number one top expert on depression, and the number two on meta-analyses.

He has visiting professorships at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland and at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In 2024 he received the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. He is also chair of the 'Depression guideline update panel' for the update the 2019 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Depression from the American Psychological Association.

More information about me and my work can be found at the About tab. For questions, you can send me an email at: p.cuijpers@vu.nl