prof. dr. R. (Robbert) Sanderman

Prof. dr. Robbert Sanderman

Robbert Sanderman was trained as a clinical psychologist (Graduated 1983, University of Groningen). He got his PhD. in 1988. In 1999 he became a full professor in Health Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine and at the Faculty of Psychology until his retirement in 2020. His research is focused on psychological and social adaptive processes in patients diagnosed with a chronic somatic disease (e.g., cancer, diabetes, heart failure, and COPD). Apart from studying the development of quality of life and psychological mechanisms in adjustment over time, he is involved in studies testing the efficacy of psychosocial interventions to restore life quality among patients - among others making use of eHealth. 

Robbert Sanderman is the past president of the European Health Psychology Society. 

Since 2013 and until his retirement in 2020, he has also been a full Professor of Health Psychology & Head of the Health Psychology Department at the University of Twente. 

Former Related Official positions

Among others, he was vice-chair of the board of the psychosocial scientific committee of the Dutch Cancer Society; Past President of the Dutch Behavioral Medicine Federation; Past president of the Dutch Society of Psychosocial Oncology; Chair of the Board of the Research Institute of Psychology and Health.

Current Official positions: see profile page