Rate My Professor Isabel Krug

Isabel Krug is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of the Melbourne. She leads the MSPS Eating Disorder Lab, where her research centers on eating disorders, body image, and eating pathology. Her work investigates genetic, environmental, and psychological risk factors for eating pathology, alongside the efficacy of innovative treatment modalities such as mindfulness, oxytocin, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), virtual reality, and telemedicine. Recently, she and her team employ Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) to explore influences like social media, wearable fitness trackers, and cultural practices such as fasting during Ramadan on body image and eating behaviors. The lab emphasizes transdiagnostic factors shared across eating disorders (EDs) and other conditions like anxiety, depression, and autism spectrum disorders, utilizing advanced methods including machine learning and network analyses to enhance ED classification, etiology understanding, and treatment outcomes. Particular attention is given to Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED) and Unspecified Feeding or Eating Disorder (UFED), assessing their severity, risk profiles, and interventions.

Krug completed her PhD at the University of Barcelona, earning the Best 2008 PhD Thesis Award (Premio extraordinario de doctorado). Her career at the University of Melbourne includes progression from Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor, supported by grants such as the University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme (2014) and the CoAST project (2025-2027). Key publications include 'A meta-analysis of mortality rates in eating disorders: An update of the literature from 2010 to 2024' (2025), 'Embodiment illusions and eating disorders: snapshot of implications for future research and treatment' (2024), 'Your Body, My Experience: A Systematic Review of Embodiment Illusions as a Function of and Method to Improve Body Image Disturbance' (2024), and 'Enfacement illusions: Filling a knowledge gap in eating disorder risk factor research' (2024). She serves as Review Editor for Eating Behaviors in Frontiers in Psychology. Her research, cited over 6,800 times, advances clinical care for ED patients and carers across diverse populations, ages, genders, cultures, and ethnicities.