Psychologist. He works on ways to cope with work stress and burnout, as well as traumatic events. His research shows under what circumstances the perceived ability to get help from other people reduces the negative effects of stress at work and prevents job burnout. They also show that self-efficacy beliefs predict what the psychological consequences of stress will be. Together with the team at the Stress Research Center: StressLab is involved in creating and evaluating the effectiveness of online psychological interventions on, for example, coping with depression and stress.
Since 2007, he has been working with the Trauma, Health and Hazards Center (THHC) at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship and later served as director of research and now as a consultant as Associate Professor Adjoint. The two teams (StresLab and THHC) collaborate, conducting joint research and publication projects.
He is the director of the research project E-COMAPRED: European Comparative Effectiveness Research on Internet-based Depression Treatment, which aims to develop recommendations on ways to treat depression using the Internet, so that treatment is integrated into existing specialized health care systems in European Union countries.
She is part of the team at the StresLab research center, which is developing an innovative system for designing, sharing, and evaluating psychological services that operate on mobile devices – the DESMoPsI (Designing, Evaluating, and Sharing Mobile Psychological Interventions) system. The project was awarded in the TANGO competition, a joint venture between the National Science Center and the National Center for Research and Development, which aims to make practical use of the results of groundbreaking basic research and facilitate scientists’ introduction of cutting-edge technologies, products and services to the market, in cooperation with entrepreneurs.
He leads a scientific team that has developed a platform for designing, sharing and evaluating psychological interventions designed for mobile devices. The result of the team’s work is the Beviado system.