Matthias Klee, Ph.D.

Postdoc in der Psychosomatischen Versorgungsforschung, Klinik für Allgemeine Innere Medizin und Psychosomatik, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg

Promotion am Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality, Universität Luxemburg

Dissertation: Investigation of modifiable social and behavioural risk factors of cognitive decline and dementia

Ph.D. (docteur en Psychologie) unter Supervision von Prof. Anja Leist, Universität Luxemburg

Postgraduate Fellow im Program on Aging unter Supervision von Prof. Heather Allore, Yale School of Medicine

M. Sc. (Psychologie; Organizational Behaviour and Adaptive Cognition), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Posterpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychosomatische Medizin und Ärztliche Psychotherapie (DGPM) / des Deutschen Kollegiums für Psychosomatische Medizin (DKPM)

Posterpreis der European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment

Ordentliches Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (Mitglied der Interessengruppe Modellierung und Simulation in der klinischen Psychologie)

Klee, M., Jaeger, B. C., Sikorski, F., Löwe, B., & Kohlmann, S. (2025). Heterogeneity in Effects of Automated Results Feedback After Online Depression Screening: Secondary Machine-Learning Based Analysis of the DISCOVER Trial. JMIR AI, 4, e70001. doi.org/10.2196/70001 

Klee, M., Markwardt, S., Elman, M. R., Han, L., Leist, A. K., Allore, H., & Quiñones, A. (2025). Examining multimorbidity contributors to dementia over time. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 21(2), e14589. doi.org/10.1002/alz.14589 

Klee, M., Sikorski, F., Loewe, B., & Kohlmann, S. (2025). Do illness beliefs predict uptake of depression treatment after web-based depression screening? A secondary analysis of the DISCOVER RCT. BMJ Mental Health, 28(1). doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2025-301666 

Walsh, S., Klee, M., Hui, E. K., Saeed, U., Waters, S., Kuhn, I., Siette, J., Orgeta, V., Stafford, J., Smith, L. J., Tamburin, S., Jensen, D. E. A., Mantovani, E., Chandra, A., James, S. N., Tang, E. Y. H., Llewellyn, D. J., Foote, I. F., Chiesa, S. T., & Geraets, A. F. J. (2025). Social determinants of dementia: A scoping review. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 21(7), e70524. doi.org/10.1002/alz.70524 

Klee, M., Aho, V. T. E., May, P., Heintz-Buschart, A., Landoulsi, Z., Jónsdóttir, S. R., Pauly, C., Pavelka, L., Delacour, L., Kaysen, A., Krüger, R., Wilmes, P., Leist, A. K., NCER-PD Consortium. (2024). Education as Risk Factor of Mild Cognitive Impairment: The Link to the Gut Microbiome. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease, 11(3), 759–768. https://doi.org/10.14283/jpad.2024.19

Klee, M., Langa, K. M., & Leist, A. K. (2024). Performance of probable dementia classification in a European multi-country survey. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 6657. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56734-7

Klee, M., Leist, A. K., Veldsman, M., Ranson, J. M., & Llewellyn, D. J. (2023). Socioeconomic Deprivation, Genetic Risk, and Incident Dementia. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 64(5), 621–630. doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2023.01.012

Zuber, S., Bechtiger, L., Bodelet, J. S., Golin, M., Heumann, J., Kim, J. H., Klee, M., Mur, J., Noll, J., Voll, S., O’Keefe, P., Steinhoff, A., Zölitz, U., Muniz-Terrera, G., Shanahan, L., Shanahan, M. J., & Hofer, S. M. (2023). An integrative approach for the analysis of risk and health across the life course: Challenges, innovations, and opportunities for life course research. Discover Social Science and Health, 3(1), 14. doi.org/10.1007/s44155-023-00044-2

Leist, A. K., Klee, M., Kim, J. H., Rehkopf, D. H., Bordas, S. P. A., Muniz-Terrera, G., & Wade, S. (2022). Mapping of machine learning approaches for description, prediction, and causal inference in the social and health sciences. Science Advances, 8(42), eabk1942. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abk1942