معرفی
Dr. Sandra Meier is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. She specializes in leveraging modern technology to improve youth mental health care, with a focus on anxiety disorders, genetic risk factors, and long-term outcomes. Her work includes developing a smartphone app for passive behavioral monitoring to enable early intervention.
- Education: Undergraduate and Master’s in Psychology (Basel University), PhD in Human Sciences (Heidelberg University)
Research Interests: Dr. Meier’s research combines psychiatric epidemiology, mobile sensing, and genetic studies to address Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Her projects include the PROSIT app for social interaction tracking and studies on social media impacts on youth well-being.
Selected Awards:
- Canada Research Chair in Developmental Psychopathology and Youth Mental Health
- Young Researcher Award, World Association of Stress-related and Anxiety Disorders
- Multiple PhD awards from Heidelberg University and Novartis AG
Teaching and Mentorship: Dr. Meier supervises graduate students and teaches Psychiatric Epidemiology and Psychiatric Genetics. She leads the PROSIT Lab, which includes PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and research assistants working on projects like Smart Family, GAYA, and 22q11 studies.
