Damien Lekkas is a data scientist and member of the faculty of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Damien holds a doctorate in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences from Dartmouth College where he studied digital mental health and applied statistics. His work frequently leverages online and passively collected longitudinal data to digitally operationalize and analyze mental health constructs and outcomes with special interest in suicidal thought and behavior. Working broadly at the interface of data science and psychology, he has published on a wide array of topics including, but not limited to, emotional affect, personality, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, trauma, and suicide. To contribute to an improved understanding and treatment of psychopathology in the digital era, Damien actively collaborates with researchers and clinicians on data-driven projects and digital intervention-based solutions within the mental health domain.