Affiliation: Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Keywords: psychology, personality psychology, addiction, substance use, behavioral addiction, work addiction, clinical psychology
Full profile: Bernadette Kun is a psychologist and habilitated associate professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction at the Institute of Psychology of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). She studied at the Faculty of Education and Psychology at ELTE and obtained her doctoral degree from the ELTE Doctoral School of Psychology in 2012. From 2012, she has worked as an assistant professor and, since 2021, as a habilitated associate professor. She served as the head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction from 2021 to 2024. She is a founding member of the Addiction Research Group at ELTE. Her research interests include substance-related and behavioral addictions and their psychological mechanisms, with a specialization in the psychology of work addiction. She leads the Hungarian research team of the international project Global Research on Work Addiction.
Since 2022, she has been a member of the board of the Hungarian Association on Addictions. In 2015, she was elected “Promising Researcher” of ELTE. From 2017 to 2020, she was awarded the Bolyai János Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2019-2020, she received the Bolyai+ Fellowship of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office. In 2024, she was awarded the Bolyai János Research Fellowship for the second time. She has been a senior researcher in seven Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) projects. In 2020, she was awarded the OTKA Young Researcher Excellence Programme grant as a Principal Investigator for her project entitled “Exploring the cognitive profile of different addictive behaviours (work addiction, problematic video game use, and
cannabis use disorder)”.
She has been a member of the Hungarian Young Academy since 2023 and a board member since 2024. She supervises several PhD students at the Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE. She is the author of more than 80 scientific papers, book chapters, or volumes, and her total number of scientific publications exceeds 230. Her work has been cited in more than 2500 publications (Hirsch index: 24).