
Carmen Peuters
Profile
Carmen obtained a Master's degree in Clinical and Health Psychology at the KU Leuven in 2015. Five months of internship as a psychologist in Peru deepened her motivation to continue her career in health promotion. In 2016, she obtained a second Master's degree in Research in Applied Psychology to Health Sciences, with a specialization in Sports and Health Psychology, at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in Spain. Carmen worked six months at the Quality of Life Department at the EORTC in Brussels, coordinating the development of quality of life measures for cancer research. As of November 2018, she started an interdisciplinary PhD at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Ghent University.
Under supervision of prof. dr. Geert Crombez, prof. dr. Greet Cardon and dr. Ann DeSmet, Carmen has been working on the MOV-E-STAR project (funded by the Flemish Government and FWO Red Nose Fund). The project concerned the participatory development and evaluation of a mobile health (mHealth) behaviour change intervention to encourage youth (12 - 15 years) to adopt a healthy lifestyle with the aim to promote their mental health. Carmen’s PhD research involved the participatory design of the mHealth intervention #LIFEGOALS, the evaluation of its health effects, and an investigation of the user engagement with the different intervention components.
Interests
- Health promotion
- Preventive psychology
- Positive psychology
- Healthy lifestyles
- Stress- and emotion regulation

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.