Dirk Hermans

Dirk Hermans (°1968) is a clinical psychologist and trained cognitive behaviour therapist. He is professor at University of Leuven (Belgium), where he is director of the Center for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology. He is head of the postgraduate training programme in cognitive behaviour therapy at his university. Together with Jan De Houwer he is Editor of the journal Cognition & Emotion. His work focuses on associative learning and fear, autobiographical memory, and the study of the automatic affective processing of stimuli.