Valentina Hampejs

Valentina Hampejs holds an M.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Vienna, where she completed the "Mind and Brain" programme. She is currently a third-year PhD candidate working on the Horizon Europe project ‘Building individual and community RESilience thrOugh NATure based therapies’ (RESONATE). 
Her research explores how nature contact can promote and sustain health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on individual-level biopsychosocial resilience. She is interested in understanding how natural environments can help people to navigate stress and adversity, maintain their biological, psychological, and social health and wellbeing, and strengthen the resources that enable them to cope with life's challenges.
Through her research, Valentina aims to advance methodological approaches in environmental psychology and contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms linking nature, resilience, and wellbeing. She is committed to Open Science practices and to promoting transparency and reproducibility in research.