Mathias Harrer is an assistant professor of clinical psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences.
Mathias' work focuses on using technology and biostatistical methods to improve psychological interventions for mental disorders. His research interests include predictive modeling, digital interventions, meta-epidemiological research, evidence synthesis methods, and statistical software development.
Mathias is the developer and maintainer of the Metapsy infrastructure, embedded in the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions. Metapsy is a comprehensive system of living open databases and tailored software that allows for rapid evidence generation in psychological treatment research across all major mental disorders.
He is also coordinator of the Meta-Analytic Psychotherapy and Evidence Synthesis (META-SYN) Group within the German Society for Psychology (meta-syn.de).
Mathias is the maintainer of the {dmetar}, {metapsyTools} and {metapsyData} packages in R, as well as the TUM EBMPP Trial Warehouse.
- Personal Website: mharrer.dev
