Damien Lekkas

Damien Lekkas

Data Scientist in Digital Mental Health

Biography

Dr. Damien Lekkas is a Research Assistant Professor and a core member of the faculty for the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITS), as well as the Quantitative Methods and Data Science Lead for the Lab for Scalable Mental Health (LSMH) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Damien holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences from Dartmouth College with a focus on digital mental health. He actively collaborates with clinical researchers on data-driven projects and digital intervention-based solutions and is author on > 40 scientific peer-reviewed journal articles that target a wide array of psychological constructs, digital modalities, and methodological approaches.

Interests
  • Mental Health & Psychiatry
  • Human Behavior
  • Digital Phenotyping
  • Digital Interventions
  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Network Analysis
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Statistical Modeling
Education
  • PhD in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, 2024

    Dartmouth College

  • MS in Bioinformatics, 2019

    University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

  • MS in Anthropology, 2014

    University of Pennsylvania

  • BA in Anthropology & Biology, 2014

    University of Pennsylvania

Academic Appointments

 
 
 
 
 
Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Northwestern University
Research Assistant Professor (Medical Social Sciences)
March 2025 – Present Chicago, IL

Contact

If you are interested in a potential academic research collaboration or need access to any of my published works, please contact me via the email provided.