Dr. Samuel W. Stull is a T32 postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth College. He received his PhD in Biobehavioral Health (emphasis in applied statistics) from Penn State University working under the mentorship of Dr. Stephanie Lanza. As a PhD student, Dr. Stull was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a NIDA NRSA F31 Predoctoral Fellowship. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a post-baccalaureate fellow at the NIDA Intramural Research Program under the mentorship of Drs. Kenzie Preston and David Epstein. Dr. Stull’s research is focused on the role of positive moods states and nondrug rewards in supporting recovery from addiction on a daily basis. Integrated in his work is often the use of innovative methods to delineate dynamic and heterogenous daily processes (e.g., time-varying effect modeling, multilevel latent class analysis). As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Stull will work under the mentorship of Drs. Lisa Marsch and Nicholas Jacobson to learn key theoretical (i.e. science of behavior change) and methodological approaches (i.e. adaptive interventions, micro-randomized trials) for developing digital interventions. Dr. Stull’s focus will include the development of a novel humor-based digital intervention to promote greater treatment engagement, enjoyment, and adaptive coping strategies to support recovery from addiction.

In his free time, Dr. Stull enjoys running, spending time with his family and dogs, community/peer involvement in supporting people with mental illness/addiction, and watching live stand-up comedy