Samuel Meisel
Assistant Professor
- Title Assistant Professor
- Office 900 Commonwealth Ave, Room 214
- Email smeisel@bu.edu
- Education PhD, SUNY Buffalo
Director: SUMMIT Lab
Biographical Sketch
Samuel N. Meisel received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York in 2020. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at Brown University. Dr. Meisel completed a two-year NIAAA-funded F32 postdoctoral fellowship and then a two-year NIAAA-funded K99 postdoctoral fellowship at E. P. Bradley Hospital and Brown University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. He joined the BU faculty in 2024.
Research Interests
Dr. Meisel’s research focuses on social relationships, such as peer and caregiver relationships, and how they interact with multiple levels of influence (e.g., temperament, schools, neighborhoods) to influence adolescent substance use etiology and treatment. The overarching questions that guide his work include (1) What are the developmental pathways leading to adolescent substance use? (2) What are the key ingredients of adolescent substance use treatments that lead to behavior change? (3) How do we leverage developmental science and work on key ingredients to improve and scale adolescent substance use treatments?