Prof. Daniel David, PhD.
Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca
Keynote
Daniel David is an “Aaron T. Beck” professor of clinical psychology and psychotherapy (clinical cognitive sciences) at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (UBB), the founding director of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Babeş-Bolyai University and International Institute for the Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health, of the Romanian College of Psychologists, Cluj branch (2004-2012) and of the Romanian Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies (2000-2011).
He is currently (2009-) an associate professor at the prestigious Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA, and the director of the research program at the Albert Ellis Institute, New York, USA. He was also a member of the Scientific Review Group in Social Sciences at the European Science Foundation.
Professor David has made a major contribution to the development and dissemination of scientifically validated clinical practices, both nationally and internationally, with benefits for a large number of people and society in general, in 2019 and 2020 was included between 2% more world scientists (in the Scopus system). For scientific / professional merits he was awarded the National Order of Merit as a Knight. In 2017, he was elected president of the Romanian Association of Psychologists. Since March 2020, he has been the Rector of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.
