Dr Chantal den Daas

Biography

Chantal is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology within the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, at the University of Aberdeen. She joined the Health Psychology Group in 2020.

Chantal gained a Research Masters, majoring in Social Psychology and minoring in Methodology from the University of Amsterdam in 2008. She defended her PhD thesis at Utrecht University in 2013. She then did postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands at the Centre for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention in the department for sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV.

Her research utilises mixed methods, that included experimental studies, questionnaire and interview studies, and mathematical modeling. Her interest is mainly in sexual health behaviour, infectious disease prevention, and self-control. Chantal works with Prof Diane Dixon, Prof Marie Johnston, and Prof Gill Hubbard (University of Highlands and Islands) on the CSO funded CHARIS project looking at transmission reducing behaviours during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Chantal also contributes significantly to teaching on the Health Psychology masters here in Aberdeen.