Kun, Bernadette

Bernadette Kun (Bernadette Eleonóra Kun) is a psychologist, habilitated associate professor at the Institute of Psychology, ELTE PPK, and she is the head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction. She completed her studies at ELTE PPK and received her doctoral degree at the ELTE Doctoral School of Psychology in 2012 (her supervisor was Zsolt Demetrovics). From 2012, she taught and carried out research as an adjunct professor, from 2021 as an associate professor, and since 2021 she has been the head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction. She is a founding member of the Addiction Research Group at ELTE PPK. Her research interests include substance-related and behavioral addictions and their underlying psychological mechanisms. She specializes in the psychology of work addiction. She is the leader of 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 received the “Promising Researcher of ELTE” award. Between 2017–2020  she was the recipient of the János Bolyai Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, between 2019–2020 she was awarded the Bolyai+ Fellowship of the New National Excellence Programme of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology from the source of the National Research, Development, and Innovation Fund. So far, she has been a senior co-investigator in 6 OTKA projects, and in 2020 she was awarded the OTKA young researchers’ excellence programme grant as a principal investigator, entitled “Exploring the cognitive profiles of different addictive behaviors (work addiction, gaming disorder, and cannabis use disorder)”. She is the supervisor of several PhD students at the ELTE PPK Doctoral School of Psychology. She is the author of more than 80 scientific papers, book chapters or books, and her total number of scientific publications exceeds 200. Her works have been cited by more than 2000 publications (Hirsch index: 22). She is a member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a psychodrama leader, and a family therapist in training. She is married with two children.