Main Research Interests

Assessing and Changing Cognitive Processes in Addiction

Reinout is internationally known for his work on assessing and changing implicit cognitive processes in addiction. He published over 400 international papers and many books and book-chapters. He received the prestigious VIDI (2002) and VICI (2008) research grants from the Dutch National Science Foundation (N.W.O.) for research on implicit cognition and addiction. With Alan Stacy, he edited the Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction (SAGE, 2006). He has been senior editor of the no 1 ranked journal in the field of substance abuse (Addiction) since 2009, and on the editorial board of several other Addiction journals.

Urban mental health & Network approach to psychopathology

Together with prof. dr. Claudi Bockting, Reinout Wiers co-chairs the interdisciplinary centre for urban mental health, a UvA research priority area, with the mission to unravel new pathways to improve urban mental health: from complexity to action. A position paper was published in Lancet Psychiatry (2021). For more informations see centreforurbanmentalhealth.com

He is also involved as co-PI in the gravitation project New Science of Mental Disorders, where he leads the WP on the role of cognitive control in the development and treatment of mental disorders from the network perspective. For more information visit: nsmd.eu

Student mental health, UvAcare and Caring Universities

With Pim Cuijpers and Heleen Riper (VU), Wiers started the Caring Universities project, followed by UvAcare with the head of the student physicians Peter Vonk. General aim is to help students with mental health problems with scalable e-health solutions. All students (including PhD students) are regularly invited to take part in an online mental health screener, and those who meet criteria are invited to take part in CBT-based e-health.