About
Nicole is currently a 7th year clinical psychology PhD student at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. Nicole researches risk and maintenance factors for eating disorders in Dr. Alissa Haedt-Matt's Eating Behaviors Lab at IIT. Nicole completed data collection in 2019 for her Master's Thesis project, "Investigating the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Appetite and Disordered Eating", for which she funded through backers on Experiment.com. She is currently working on her dissertation research project and applying to clinical psychology internship sites.
At the University of North Dakota, Nicole began researching eating disorders in 2013 and spent two years as a research assistant and one year as lab coordinator in Dr. Kyle De Young's Eating Behaviors Lab. In 2015, Nicole earned her Bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND. Nicole began studying at IIT in 2016, and after some delays in training due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she is expected to graduate with her PhD in clinical psychology in 2024.
Nicole has presented 4 first-author poster presentations and 1 paper talk at the International Conference of Eating Disorders (ICED), and she has co-authored various other presentations at ICED and regional conferences. Nicole has 6 peer-reviewed publications studying aspects of eating disorders, and she has a few manuscripts in preparation, including two based on her master's research. In the summer of 2017, Nicole completed a Summer Research Fellowship at the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Nicole is passionate about researching factors that may impact the development and maintenance of eating disorders with the hope to improve eating disorder interventions. Please see Nicole's LinkedIn and ResearchGate profiles for more information regarding her research and clinical work. She can be reached via email at njohnson1@hawk.iit.edu.
Joined
May 2018
