Claudi Bockting is a professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry and clinician at Amsterdam University Medical Centers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Her research program focuses on finding potentially modifiable factors that can be targeted with innovative interventions to prevent or treat common mental health disorders (such as depression and anxiety). She developed Preventive Cognitive Therapy (PCT) as a treatment against relapse in depressive disorders and demonstrated its effectiveness in several randomized controlled trials, with demonstrated preventive effective over 20 years. Her work also is focused on underserved populations with mental health conditions, with projects in Indonesia, India, Rwanda, and Malawi. As a former fellow at the World Health Organization (WHO), she studied the opportunity of using technology to increase the accessibility of effective psychological interventions worldwide. As a former fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the UvA, she studied the use of complex systems models to explore new targets for prevention, treatment, and relapse prevention of mental disorders. In 2023 she was visiting professor Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School at Harvard University. She is a (co)founder and director of interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Mental Health, and initiator of the international Centre for Excellence in Mental Health Sciences.