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Thomas Vaessen is an Assistant Professor at KU Leuven, specializing in the interplay between stress, stress recovery, and psychopathology. His research employs innovative methodologies such as experience sampling, passive monitoring, and experimental lab tasks to investigate mechanisms underlying mental health disorders. He focuses on developing early interventions targeting coping behaviors in stressful contexts, with particular attention to populations such as individuals with early psychosis, alcohol use disorder, and subclinical anxiety.
Research Interests:
- Stress resilience and recovery dynamics
- Emotion regulation in clinical populations
- Ecological momentary interventions (EMI)
- Cardiovascular and psychophysiological correlates of stress
- Longitudinal stress-reactivity patterns
- Technology-enabled mental health monitoring
His recent work explores how momentary stress responses predict clinical outcomes in psychosis (e.g., ACT-DL trials) and examines bidirectional stress-emotion relationships in daily life. Vaessen’s studies frequently utilize multi-method approaches combining wearable sensors, smartphone-based ESM, and neuroimaging data.
Key collaborations involve institutions like the University Medical Center Utrecht, Maastricht University, and international psychosis research networks. His contributions advance both theoretical understanding of stress-related psychopathology and practical applications in digital mental health interventions.
