People behind the research.
Principal Investigator
Mark is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. His research explores the relationship between technology and wellbeing, focusing on how digital systems can support people with serious mental illness and how technology design influences key mental health factors such as sleep–wake cycles and circadian rhythms. His work integrates advanced behavioural sensing, interaction design, and machine learning to address complex challenges in mental health.
PhD Researchers
Dara is a third-year PhD candidate in the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. His research investigates the relationship between mental health and financial behaviour and how this can be assessed using objective financial data and machine learning. He is passionate about mental health and has over three years of volunteering experience in the field.
Collaborators
David is a Professor with the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin. He received his PhD in Human Computer Interaction from Trinity College Dublin. David's work focuses on Human Computer Interaction and digital health, with an emphasis on digital mental health.
Keith Gaynor is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology at University College Dublin and a member of the Clinical Psychology Training Programme. He is also a Senior Clinical Psychologist with DETECT, the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service. For over 20 years, Keith has worked and conducted research in the areas of psychosis and early intervention in adolescent mental health. He has published extensively on psychological approaches to psychosis and is the Principal Investigator of POPlab UCD (the Psychology of Psychosis Research Lab).
Andreas is a postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin's School of Computer Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from the Umeå University of Sweden, and a BSc in Informatics and Computer Technology from the Technological Educational Institution of Western Macedonia in Greece.
Jeff is a PhD candidate at Pennsylvania State University, USA, in the Wellbeing and Health Innovation Lab. His research explores how financial technologies can help address the unique financial challenges experienced by individuals living with bipolar disorder. In particular, he investigates whether integrating financial behaviors and data into clinical contexts is feasible, acceptable, and ethically appropriate, given the scale and severity of these challenges.
Saeed is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State, USA, and leads the Wellbeing & Health Innovation (WHI) lab. His goal is to improve health equity and access for all.
Johnna is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Wellbeing and Health Innovation (WHI) Lab at Pennsylvania State University, USA. She recently completed her PhD in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the same institution. Prior to this, she earned a B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Penn State.
Thomas is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology & CBT at the University of Southampton, UK. He is a Clinical Psychologist who works in teaching and research in the School of Psychology around Adult Mental Health.