Ass.-Prof. Mathew White, BSc MSc PhD
T: +43-1-4277-47270
Sommersemester 2026
540002 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Planetary Health
Wintersemester 2025
540007 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Trends in cognitive and affective neuroscience - Planetary Health
White, M. P., Egger, J. A. M., Amato, G., Astell-Burt, T., Bekke-Hansen, S., Borja, A., Burov, A., Busse, S., Costongs, C., Dimitrova, D., Doimo, I., Dzhambov, A. M., Elliott, L. R., Godfrey, A., Grellier, J., Hartig, T., Hartl, A., Nyed, P. K., Konijnendijk, C., ... van den Bosch, M. (2026). Testing nature-based biopsychosocial resilience theory: a research programme protocol. Archives of Public Health, 84(1), Artikel 90. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-026-01903-5





Geiger, S., Imada, H., Maharja, C., Powdthavee, N., Vitale, V., Zhang, L., Rosa, C. D., Delabrida, Z. N. C., Nielsen, K. F., Essl, F., & White, M. (2025). Understanding the role of pluralistic ignorance in biodiversity conservation: A research agenda. Global Environmental Change, 95, Artikel 103043. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000809



Martin, L., White, M. P., Pahl, S., May, J., Newton, J. N., Elliott, L. R., Cirach, M., Grellier, J., Bratman, G. N., Gascon, M., Lima, M. L., Nieuwenhuijsen, M., Ojala, A., Roiko, A., van den Bosch, M., & Fleming, L. E. (2025). Nature contact and health risk behaviours: Results from an 18 country study. Health and Place, 94, Artikel 103479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2025.103479



Swami, V., Tran, U. S., Voracek, M., Aavik, T., Ranjbar, H. A., Adebayo, S. O., Afhami, R., Ahmed, O., Aimé, A., Akel, M., Al Halbusi, H., Alexias, G., Ali, K. F., Alp-Dal, N., Alsalhani, A. B., Álvarez-Solas, S., Amaral, A. C. S., Andrianto, S., Aspden, T., ... Stieger, S. (2025). Self-Compassion Around the World: Measurement Invariance of the Short Form of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-SF) Across 65 Nations, 40 Languages, Gender Identities, and Age Groups. Mindfulness, 16(6), 1569-1596. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02560-5

Geiger, S. J., Köhler, J. K., Delabrida, Z. N. C., Garduño-Realivazquez, K. A., Haugestad, C. A. P., Imada, H., Iyer, A., Maharja, C., Mann, D. C., Marczak, M., Melville, O., Nijssen, S. R. R., Powdthavee, N., Praptiwi, R. A., Ranade, G., Rosa, C. D., Vitale, V., Winkowska, M., Zhang, L., & White, M. P. (2025). What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging. Psychological Science, 36(6), 421-442. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251335585

Steininger, M., & White, M. (2025). Hilft Surf-Therapie bei Stress, Depressionen und PTBS?. Radiosendung, Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk - SWR 1.



Groeneveld, W., Krainz, M., White, M. P., Heske, A., Elliott, L. R., Bratman, G. N., Fleming, L. E., Grellier, J., McDougall, C. W., Nieuwenhuijsen, M., Ojala, A., Pahl, S., Roiko, A., van den Bosch, M., & Wheeler, B. W. (2025). The psychological benefits of open-water (wild) swimming: Exploring a self-determination approach using a 19-country sample. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102, Artikel 102558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102558

Swami, V., Stieger, S., Voracek, M., Aavik, T., Ranjbar, H. A., Adebayo, S. O., Afhami, R., Ahmed, O., Aimé, A., Akel, M., Halbusi, H. A., Alexias, G., Ali, K. F., Alp-Dal, N., Alsalhani, A. B., Álvarez-Solas, S., Amaral, A. C. S., Andrianto, S., Aspden, T., ... Tran, U. S. (2025). Life satisfaction around the world: Measurement invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Artikel e0313107. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313107

Vaupotič, N., Grellier, J., Martin, L., Domènech Panicello, C., Goszczyńska, E., Kojimahara, N., Polańska, K., Bauer, O., Mori, H., Yamaguchi-Sekino, S., Guxens, M., & White, M. P. (2025). 5G technology, health and society: misconceptions, blind spots and insights from experts, non-experts, and self-identified electrosensitive individuals. Journal of Risk Research, 28(5), 446-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2025.2512074


“That inward eye”: Memories are a discrete but neglected form of nature exposure

White, M. (Vortragende*r) & Smalley, A. J. (Vortragende*r)

18 Juni 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Blue Gym, Blue Health, Blue Communities & Blue Prescriptions: 15 Years of Promoting the Oceans for Human Health

White, M. (Vortragende*r)

14 Mai 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Building individual and community resilience with urban nature

White, M. (Vortragende*r)

22 März 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Environmental change & health: The importance of nature for building individual and societal resilience

White, M. (Vortragende*r)

20 Nov. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


From the Blue Gym to Blue Health, Blue Communities and Blue Prescriptions

White, M. (Vortragende*r)

10 Nov. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Environmental change & health: The importance of nature for building individual and societal resilience

White, M. (Vortragende*r)

1 Nov. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Nature exposure reduces self-reported acute pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Steininger, M. (Vortragende*r), Nitschke, J. (Autor*in), Schenk, L. (Autor*in), White, M. (Autor*in) & Lamm, C. (Autor*in)

16 Sept. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Technology is the problem not the solution: Nature-based design & less stuff

White, M. (Vortragende*r)

2 Sept. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Nature exposure reduces self-reported acute pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Steininger, M. (Vortragende*r), Nitschke, J. (Autor*in), Schenk, L. (Autor*in), White, M. (Autor*in) & Lamm, C. (Autor*in)

5 Juli 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Building individual and community resilience with urban nature

White, M. (Vortragende*r)

10 Juni 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Exposure to virtual nature decreases neural nociceptive processing and self-reported ratings during acute pain

Steininger, M. (Vortragende*r), White, M. (Autor*in), Lengersdorff, L. (Autor*in), Zhang, L. (Autor*in), Smalley, A. J. (Autor*in), Kühn, S. (Autor*in) & Lamm, C. (Autor*in)

24 Mai 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Urban nature and health in a changing climate

White, M. (Vortragende*r)

10 Mai 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Nature exposure and subjective well-being: Implications for health impact assessment

White, M. (Vortragende*r)

11 März 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Urban nature can mitigate the health threats of climate change. Climate change and health conference

White, M. (Vortragende*r)

10 Nov. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Natural environments relieve pain: How exposure to nature stimuli impacts the neural processing of pain

Steininger, M. (Vortragende*r), White, M. (Autor*in), Zhang, L. (Autor*in), Smalley, A. J. (Autor*in), Kühn, S. (Autor*in) & Lamm, C. (Autor*in)

22 Juni 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The importance of urban nature for population healthand Human Health

White, M. (Invited speaker)

23 Sept. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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