Draft:David Daniel Ebert

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David Daniel Ebert is Professor for Psychology & Digital Mental Health Care at the Technical University of Munich. In addition to his scientific work, he is also co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of HelloBetter, a manufacturer of digital health applications.

Life and Work

Ebert received his doctorate in Psychology in 2013 from Philipps University of Marburg (summa cum laude). After positions as a research associate in Marburg and as project manager at Leuphana University Lüneburg, he worked at Harvard Medical School. In 2018, he completed his habilitation at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he led the "E-Mental Health" research group. He then was Associate Professor for Clinical Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications and was appointed as Professor at TU Munich in 2021. His research focuses on the development and evaluation of internet- and mobile-based health interventions to promote mental health, especially for prevention and early intervention of mental disorders. Further areas of work include health economic evaluations of psychological interventions, the identification of protective factors for mental health, as well as the development of predictive models for psychosocial health trajectories. Ebert and his team developed more than 15 internet-based health interventions, whose effectiveness and cost-effectiveness have been examined in more than 50 randomized controlled trials. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles, received third-party funding amounting to over ten million euros, and led work packages in several European research projects (including FP7, H2020). Ebert was president of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) and is a board member of the German Psychological Society (Division of Health Psychology), founding member of the European Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ESRII), and a member of the editorial board of the journal "Internet Interventions." In 2015, he founded the GET.ON Institute for Health Trainings GmbH for the implementation of evidence-based online interventions in health care, which now operates under the brand name HelloBetter. He also played a leading role in the introduction of internet-based psychotherapy procedures at the Schön Clinic and regularly advises institutions on the implementation of digital psychotherapy offerings.

Awards (Selection)

• Comenius Award of the European Federation of Psychologist Associations (EFPA, 2017)
• Charlotte and Karl Bühler Prize of the German Psychological Society
• Young Researcher Award (2015) of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the German Psychological Society
• Advancement Award of the German Society for Behaviour Therapy (DGVT, 2014)
• Early Career Researcher Award of ISRII (2011)
• Further prizes and scholarships, including from DAAD, Leuphana University Lüneburg and DRV