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Olivia Kirtley is an Assistant Professor on tenure track at KU Leuven, specializing in Contextual Psychiatry. She is a member of the Department of Neurosciences and holds membership in the L-C&Y - KU Leuven Child & Youth Institute. Kirtley's research focuses on the mental health of adolescents, particularly related to suicide risk and self-harm. She employs innovative methodologies, including Experience Sampling Method (ESM), to develop personalized real-time models that identify risk and protective factors associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Her projects include identifying these factors in young people and utilizing ecological momentary assessment to study stress and its role in eating disorders. Kirtley has published extensively, contributing to significant studies on pain and suicidality in adolescents, as well as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health. Her work integrates mixed-method approaches aimed at creating adaptive interventions in mental health care.
Master of Engineering: Computer Science. Admission is at the discretion of the Faculty of Engineering Science.