Jule Marie Schmitz

Background

During her time at the University of Erfurt, Jule Schmitz was involved in the Robert Koch Institute’s Intervention Study to Increase HPV Vaccination Coverage in Germany (InveSt HPV). As part of this research project, she developed and facilitated evidence-based, psychological communication trainings for healthcare professionals and supported their evaluation.

Since October 2025, Jule Schmitz is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the perceived confusion or ambiguity about nutrition recommendations and research among emerging adults, as well as its determinants (in the context of social media) and consequences. The overall project’s aim is to develop tools for emerging adults that help navigate inaccurate, conflicting or misleading nutritional information on social media, thereby empowering emerging adults to make healthy dietary decisions.

Areas of interest: Health communication, behavioural science, interventions, communication between patients and healthcare professionals, informed decision-making, nutrition

Curriculum Vitae

Academic career

• 2020 – 2023 Master of Arts (M.A.) in Health Communication, University of Erfurt
• 2019 – 2019 Erasmus-Semester Creative Business/Media Psychology, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
• 2017 – 2020 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Public Relations, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover

Employment

• 2025 – present University of Amsterdam, PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
• 2023 – 2025 University of Erfurt, project staff member the Intervention Study to Increase HPV Vaccination Coverage in Germany (InveSt HPV), funded through the Federal Ministry of Health
• 2024 - 2025 LMU Munich, research associate in the Young Adults in Health-enhancing Equitable Environments (YAHEE) project
• 2022 – 2023 LMU Munich, intern
• 2021 – 2022 Communication Lab Erfurt, project staff member in the ALIVE project
• 2021 – 2022 University of Erfurt, student research assistant

Publications

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• Betsch, C., Sprengholz, P., Siegers, R., Eitze, S., Korn, L., Goldhahn, L., Schmitz, J. M., Giesler, P., Knauer, G., & Jenny, M. A. (2021). Empirical evidence to understand the human factor for effective rapid testing against SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(32), e2107179118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107179118
• Jenny, M. A., Schmitz, J. M., & Betsch., C. (2023). Klimaschutz und Gesundheitsförderung: Über den Wert sozial- und verhaltenswissenschaftlicher Ansätze. In J. Graalmann, E. von Hirschhausen & K. Blum (Eds.), Jetzt oder nie: Nachhaltigkeit im Gesundheitswesen: Ökologisch. Ökonomisch. Menschlich. Digital (pp. 139 – 150). MWV.