Laura completed her PhD in neuropsychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, investigating stressor controllability as a resilience mechanism. She works as a senior research associate at the University of Zurich where she has been managing the STRESS study—a longitudinal examination of stress and resilience in medical interns. Laura is also involved in other projects, including a study on international student mental health with Ann Natterer and the Agora project on enhancing citizens’ crisis competence—a joint project of the University and the City of Zurich. Overall, Laura’s research focuses on (1) identifying factors that promote resilience, (2) delineating the underlying mechanisms (e.g., control, emotion regulation), and (3) developing preventive interventions that foster mental health and well-being. She adopts a multimodal, translational approach, combining self-report, neuroimaging, and psychophysiological measures with ecological momentary assessments, wearables, and naturalistic data (e.g., video recordings).

Laura gives seminars on resilience, emotion regulation and emotional disorders, as well as on understanding mental disorders as a network. In addition, she manages the ExPP Research Colloquium together with Birgit Kleim.

Since 2020, Laura has been organising the international online seminar series, Resilient Minds. The regular meetings bring together early career stress and resilience researchers and offer an informal space for exchange.

Selected Publications

Meine, L. E., Schaekel, L. S., Thörn, H., Ehlert, U., Brodmann Maeder, M., Exadaktylos, A. K., Bingisser, R., Papassotiropoulos, A., de Quervain, D., Galatzer-Levy, I., Schultebraucks, K., Kleim, B. (in press). Characterisation of intrusive memories and prediction from memory-related genes and cognitive and emotional factors. Scientific Reports.

Meine, L. E.*, McPherson, E. B. A.*, Schmutz, J. B., Ruff, C. C., Käser, L., HMZ STRESS Consortium, & Kleim, B. (2025). Understanding resilience in medical interns through ecological momentary assessments, predictive modelling, and topic analysis. Communications Medicine, 5(1),440. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-01084-2

Meine, L. E.*, Müller-Bardorff, M.*, Recher, D., Paersch, C., Schulz, A., Spiller, T., ... & Kleim, B. (2024). Network analyses of ecological momentary emotion and avoidance assessments before and after cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 106, 102914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2024.102914

Schaeuffele, C.*, Meine, L. E.*, Schulz, A.*, Weber, M. C., Moser, A., Paersch, C., ... & Kleim, B. (2024). A systematic review and meta-analysis of transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapies for emotional disorders. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 493–509. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01787-3

Meine, L. E., Stroemer, E., Schoenfelder, S., Eckhardt, E. I., Bergmann, A. K., & Wessa, M. (2021). Look After Yourself: Students Consistently Showing High Resilience Engaged in More Self Care and Proved More Resilient During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 784381. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.784381

Meine, L. E., Meier, J., Meyer, B., & Wessa, M. (2021). Don’t stress, it’s under control: neural correlates of stressor controllability in humans. Neuroimage, 245, 118701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118701

*equal contribution