Arend Ann-Kathrin

Dr. Ann-Kathrin Arend is a Senior Scientist and Postdoc at the Department of Psychology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. She works in the Eating Behavior Laboratory Salzburg under Prof. Jens Blechert, focusing on emotional eating, stress, and eating disorder mechanisms.

• Education: PhD in Psychology (2022), Master (2018), and Bachelor (2016) at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg.
• Academic Positions: Senior Scientist (75%, 2023–present) and Postdoc in the FWF-funded project P 34542-8 (25%, 2023–2024); Postdoc (50%) and Department role (50%, 2022–2023); PhD student in ERC-funded Transdiagnostic View on Eating Disorders and Obesity (2018–2022).

Her research integrates nomothetic (psychometric, experimental) and idiographic (N-of-1, Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions) approaches to study emotion-eating dynamics across healthy, obese, and eating-disordered populations. Methods include smartphone-based assessment (EMA/EMI/JITAI), psychophysiological measures (EMG/EOG/ECG), and clinical interviews (SCID/EDE).

Publications (2021–2023) explore binge-eating prediction models, emotion-potentiated food-cue reactivity, and digital behavior during pandemics. Awards include the ÖGP Dissertation Award (2024).

• Scientific Awards:
  • ÖGP Dissertation Award (2024)

She actively collaborates on FWF-funded projects and contributes to open science via shared resources (food picture databases, stress/emotional eating questionnaires). Her lab engages in clinical training, intervention development, and international conferences like DGPs 2024 and ÖGP 2024.