Jorge Piano Simões

Assistant Professor, Health Psychology, AI & Technology · University of Twente

I study how people live with chronic conditions like tinnitus, chronic pain, depression, and anxiety, and how technology and AI can help them build lasting resilience.

At the University of Twente and at Roessingh rehabilitation clinic in Enschede, I design and evaluate technology-based interventions for chronic pain. My work mixes therapeutic approaches (ACT, CBT, behaviour change) with machine learning, wearable sensors, and smartphone tracking, so I can see what happens in people’s daily lives, not just in the lab, and figure out what works, for whom, and why.

Away from work you’ll find me with my three kids, at the lake with a fishing rod, or at the movies.

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Selected work

  1. Single versus combination treatment in tinnitus

    Nature Communications · 2025

    An international, multicentre randomised controlled trial (UNITI) testing whether combining established tinnitus treatments works better than a single one.

  2. Identifying what works in mental health apps

    npj Digital Medicine · 2026

    A meta-regression across 169 trials, pulling apart which active ingredients of mental health apps actually drive improvement in depression and anxiety.

  3. Full publication record

    Everything else, on Google Scholar.

Writing

  1. The Rooster, the Soup, and the Scapegoat