PD Dr. Adrian Meule

My main research interests are in the fields of clinical psychology and health psychology. My previous work includes topics like eating behavior, eating disorders, and obesity in particular, but also other mental disorders and transdiagnostic concepts in general. A major part of my work has been about measurement and assessment of eating behavior and eating disorders, controversially discussed concepts such as food addiction and orthorexia nervosa as well as predictors and moderators of treatment outcome in eating disorders and other mental disorders. Transdiagnostic topics include food craving, impulsivity, emotion regulation, and life satisfaction.

Academic and professional Career

• since 06/2024 Senior research position (Akademischer Oberrat auf Zeit), Chair for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Germany
• 06/2019 – 05/2024 Researcher at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital of the LMU Munich and the Schoen Clinic Roseneck (Prien am Chiemsee, Germany)
• 06/2015 – 05/2019 Researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria
• 04/2014 – 05/2015 Researcher at the LWL-University Hospital Hamm of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
• 11/2009 – 09/2014 Researcher at the Department of Psychology I, University of Würzburg, Germany

Academic education

• 06/2023 Habilitation in Medical Psychology at the LMU Munich (Title of the habilitation: Predictors and moderators of treatment outcome in inpatients with anorexia nervosa)
• 10/2014 Doctorate (Ph.D., summa cum laude) at the University of Würzburg (Title of the dissertation: Food craving as a central construct in the self-regulation of eating behavior)
• 10/2009 Diploma (equivalent to a master’s degree) in psychology at the University of Würzburg (Title of the thesis: Inhibitory control in women with restrained and disordered eating behavior)

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