Stefan Elbers

243 Curriculum Vitae CURRICULUM VITAE Stefan Elbers, born on May 22th 1987, graduated in 2005 from the Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree Physiotherapy in 2009 he combined a parttime position as physiotherapist at the University Medical Center Utrecht with a bachelor’s degree Psychology at Utrecht University. Inspired by the scientific culture in both locations, he enrolled in the research master program Social and Health Psychology and was appointed as teacher applied behavioural science at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. He completed an internship in the self-regulation lab of Utrecht University, where he explored the relationship between trait self-control and the ability to form desirable or break undesirable habits in the context of health behaviours. After obtaining his master’s degree in 2014, he was offered a position as researcher in the Lifestyle and Health research group of the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht. From 2015 to 2019 he worked on several research projects that centred on preventing relapse after successful pain rehabilitation. From 2019 onwards, Stefan co-authored various awarded research grant applications, including the SIA RAAK Publiek PAIN research program that he currently supervises with Dr. Harriët Wittink. As researcher-consultant, he also regularly collaborates in research projects that involve behaviour change. Stefan currently combines his research with a teaching position at the institute for human movement studies. His main activities include lectures on health behaviour regulation and teaching at the Master of Science program in psychosomatic physiotherapy. Since 2021, Stefan also became member of the EFIC Academy Board and the IASP taskforce on interdisciplinary pain treatment.