Eiko Fried
Associate Professor
- Name
- E.I. Fried Ph.D.
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- e.i.fried@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7469-594X
Eiko is a psychologist, methodologist, and nearly photographer. He obtained his PhD in clinical psychology at the Free University of Berlin, followed by four years of postdoctoral training in methodology at KU Leuven and University of Amsterdam. He returned to clinical psychology in 2018, as Assistant Professor at Leiden University, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. He works at the intersection of clinical psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, methodology, and complexity science, and enjoys dabbling in philosophy of science. His interests are how to best understand, measure, model, and classify mental health problems—and in improving cumulative psychological science through open science practices. He loves burnt coffee and fast computers, and is humbled to get to work with many fantastic researchers from all over the world.
More information about Eiko Fried
Eiko Fried
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Psychologists speak out for the International Bachelor in Psychology -
Re-occurring moments to reflect on our values: ‘It’s about commitment to culture change' -
Eiko Fried in APS on Open Science -
Mental health problems during COVID highly variable by symptom cluster and population group -
Rethinking Responsible Scholarship: ‘It is in so many day-to-day decisions, we forget to pause and reflect sometimes’ -
WARN-D: Your personal code yellow - orange - red -
International appreciation for Eiko Fried -
European grant for Eiko Fried to develop a personalised early warning system for depression -
ERC Starting Grants for five young researchers from Leiden University -
Psychology Awards 2019 -
Gravitation grant for team captains Bernet Elzinga and Andrea Evers
Open Science Framework
Research
My interests are how to best understand, measure, model, and classify mental health problems. To do so, I conceptualize mental health or illness as emergent properties that arise from complex, dynamical, biopsychosocial systems, rather than as clear-cut categories with simple causes. I work at the intersection of clinical psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, methodology, and complexity science, and enjoy learning about philosophy of science. Besides that, I am interested in improving cumulative psychological science through open science practices.
One of my core foci moving forward is developing a personalized, early warning system for depression, called WARN-D, as part of my ERC Starting Grant obtained in 2020 (WARN-D).
Awards
- 2021—Janet Taylor Spence Award for transformative early career contributions to psychological science; Association for Psychological Science.
- 2020 & 2021 & 2022—Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Award
- 2020 — Commendation of the Society for the Improvement for Psychological Science
- 2019 — Education Award for Best Teacher, Institute of Psychology
- 2018 — APS Rising Star Award; Association for Psychological ScienceAPS Rising Star, 2017
Grants
- PI, ERC Starting Grant, 2020 (1.500.000€, 2021-2025): "Using network theory to predict depression onset and build a personalized early warning system" (WARN-D)
- CO-I, Gravitation/Zwaartekracht Grant, 2019 (19,393,000€, 2019-2028): "New science of mental disorders"
Teaching
- Instructor “Clinical Psychology” & “Experimental Psychopathology”
- 2016 - 2020: over 20 international workshops focused on network analysis, measurement, and theory building and testing.
Tasks support staff
- 2023 - RMOC representative, Clinical & Health Research Master track
- 2023 - Team ‘Responsible Research’ with Anna van’t Veer, creating & teaching workshops to improve research practices in psychology
- 2021 - Research Master Mentor, Clinical & Health Research Master track
- 2020 - Member of Young Academy Leiden, a select group of academics promoting interdisciplinarity, science & policy education, and outreach.
Relevant links
Associate Professor
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Psychology
- Clinical Psychology