Dr Junwen Chen received her PhD (Human Sciences) in 2002 from Waseda University, Japan. Since 2002 She has been employed full-time as an academic, first at Waseda University, Japan as a Research Associate, and then at Tokai Gakuin University, Japan initially as an Assistant Professor, and subsequently as an Associate Professor. In 2010, She moved from Japan to Flinders University, Australia to take up a Lecturer position and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015. In 2019, Dr Chen joined the Australian National University as Senior Lecturer.

ORCID: 0000-0003-4870-750X

BA, M.A., Ph.D.

My research focuses primarily on anxiety disorders, specifically, Social Anxiety Disorder, and transdiagnostic processes across both anxiety and depression. In particular, I have devoted myself to research on (1) investigating determinants of social anxiety disorder (e.g., perfectionism, negative self-imagery, and interpretation bias) and their impacts on interventions (e.g., video feedback); (2) examining the effects of intervention/prevention programs for both adults and children who experience anxiety and depression by targeting transdiagnostic processes (e.g., emotion regulation and intolerance of uncertainty); and (3) cross-cultural comparisons (e.g., symptoms of social anxiety, emotion regulation strategies, Hikikomori).