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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ebner-Priemer is a Full Professor and Chair of Applied Psychology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he leads the Mental mHealth Lab within the Institute for Sports and Sports Science. His work focuses on developing and applying mobile health approaches for mental disorders, with a methodological emphasis on Ambulatory Assessment (also known as Ecological Momentary Assessment, Experience Sampling Method, or digital phenotyping). He maintains a significant collaboration with the Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI) in Mannheim and leads research projects involving multiple German university hospitals.
Prof. Ebner-Priemer's research spans several key areas:
- Assessment of momentary mechanisms in daily life through projects like EMPOWERYOU, STAR, START, and RELATER
- Long-term monitoring of illness trajectories in projects like S02 and A04 within CRC TRR 265
- Development of mHealth interventions including TherapyBuilder and BipoLife
- Investigation of physical activity's effects on mental health and wellbeing
- Neurobiological correlates of everyday experiences using combined mobile and neuroimaging approaches
His publication record reveals a consistent trajectory of high-impact research in digital mental health. Recent work explores how physical activity mitigates social isolation effects, neural correlates of social contact benefits, and green space impacts on mental wellbeing. His research covers diverse mental disorders including borderline personality disorder, ADHD, PTSD, bipolar disorders, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and alcohol use disorder, with publications in Nature Neuroscience, JAMA Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, and Science Advances.
Major recognitions include:
- President of the Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA)
- Current chair of the ECNP network "Digital Health"
- Successful acquisition of CRC393 on Affective Disorders
- DFG funding for multiple collaborative research centers
- BMBF funding for numerous mHealth intervention studies
As a mentor, Prof. Ebner-Priemer has supervised numerous doctoral students to completion, including Markus Reichert, Marco Giurgiu, Tobias Kockler, and Lena Wieland. His lab has developed a unique assessment ecosystem in partnership with movisens, featuring real-time analysis capabilities. The Mental mHealth Lab serves as central infrastructure for large-scale collaborative projects involving university hospitals in Marburg, Münster, Dresden, and Bonn, solidifying its position as a leader in European mental health technology research.
