
Ama Kissi
Profile
Ama Kissi graduated as a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology in 2013. In March 2019, she obtained her PhD in Clinical Psychology under the supervision of Prof. dr. Geert Crombez, Prof. dr. Jan De Houwer, and Dr. Sean Hughes. During her PhD program she examined how rule-following affects the way in which humans engage with their environment from a functional-analytic perspective.
As of January 2020, Ama started working as a post-doctoral researcher under the supervision ofProf. dr. Tine Vervoort and Prof. dr. Dimitri Van Ryckeghem. Their research projects aim to systematically scrutinize those mechanisms(e.g., observer and pain sufferer factors) that may help explain racialized and ethnic disparities in pain care.
Besides conducting research, Ama also works as a clinical psychologist at PRAKTIJK50 and in a general practice.
Interests
- The underlying mechanisms of racialized and ethnic disparities in health care (i.e., pain care and mental health treatments)
- The role of psychosocial (e.g., cognitive processes, discrimination) and contextual factors in the experience of pain
- Mental health
- Racism

Meet the team
Meet our enthousiastic and lively team of professors, post-doctoral researchers, phd students and research assistants
Fleur Baert
Fleur graduated as a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University.
Maya Braun
Maya obtained her Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University. After collecting experience in different areas of psychology during her student jobs, internships and theses, she joined the Health Psychology Lab of Ghent University as a doctoral student
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez is Professor of Health Psychology in the Department of Experimental-Health Psychology at Ghent University.
Marie De Breucker
I obtained my Master of Science in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology at Ghent University in 2021. During my six month research internship at the Ghent Experimental Psychiatry Lab, where I investigated an attentional bias to food in patients with anorexia nervosa, my interest in research was further enhanced, especially involving clinical populations.