About me

News: I will publicly defend my thesis, Advancing the Analytical Tools for Understanding Complexity in Behavioral Science, on November 20, 2025. More details can be found here.

Hello! My name is Jingmeng Cui, and I am currently a PhD student at the Nieuwenhuis Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands (university homepage). I am supervised by Prof. Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff and Dr. Fred Hasselman.

My research focuses on developing theories and methods from a complex-systems perspective to better understand psychological processes and psychopathology.

Before coming to Groningen, I obtained a Research Master’s degree in Behavioural Sciences from Radboud University, the Netherlands, and Bachelor’s degrees in Material Chemistry and Psychology from Peking University, China.

I am a member of the CiBS (Complexity in Behavioral Science) research group and actively involved in the MITNB (Measurement is the New Black) consortium.