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Dr. Unna Danner serves as a part-time Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Psychology within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Utrecht University. She simultaneously works as a full-time senior researcher at Altrecht Eating Disorders Rintveld, where she manages and coordinates all scientific projects.
Her educational background includes Social Psychology studies at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Kent at Canterbury, culminating in a 2007 PhD from Utrecht University with the dissertation 'By force of habit: On the formation and maintenance of goal-directed habitual behavior' under supervisors Prof. Henk Aarts and Prof. Nanne de Vries.
Dr. Danner's research focuses on cognitive functioning in individuals with eating disorders, particularly examining emotional problems such as maladaptive emotion regulation and depressive symptoms. Her work increasingly explores transdiagnostic characteristics by comparing these issues across different disorders. Her recent research emphasizes flexibility, uncertainty processing, and emotion regulation in anorexia nervosa.
Her scientific contributions primarily address the intersection of neuropsychology and eating disorders, with particular attention to how cognitive inflexibility and intolerance of uncertainty manifest in clinical populations. Her work bridges clinical assessment with theoretical understanding of cognitive-emotional processes.
Dr. Danner actively contributes to the scientific community as a member of the multidisciplinary research group URGE (Utrecht Research Group Eating disorders), the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), and serves on Altrecht's Committee Scientific Research and Advisory board Scientific Research.
At Utrecht University, she supervises master's and bachelor's theses along with clinical internships, and teaches courses including 'Academic Professional,' 'Methods and Statistics 3,' and 'Foundations of Clinical Psychology.' Her dual role allows her to integrate clinical research with academic training of future psychologists.
