Headshot of Dr. Angeline Bottera
  • Assistant Professor
Research Areas
  • Clinical

Office Hours: By appointment 

Accepting students for 2027-2028? Yes 

Research Interests

Dr. Bottera leads a research program focused on improving the assessment and treatment of eating disorders, with a particular emphasis on binge eating and co-occurring sleep and other circadian disturbances. Her work examines how daily rhythms in eating, sleep, and appetite contribute to eating disorder symptoms, with the goal of identifying novel and more effective treatment targets.

Her research also focuses on expanding access to care through innovative mobile-health (mHealth) approaches. Overall, Dr. Bottera aims to improve eating disorder and related mental health treatment outcomes and evidence-based treatments by harnessing mHealth technology and implementation science techniques within clinical trials.

In addition to treatment development, Dr. Bottera collaborates on projects aimed at improving how eating disorders are assessed and identified in both research and clinical settings, with the goal of creating clinically useful tools that enhance identification, monitoring, and treatment planning.

Dr. Bottera’s research has been funded by the Department of Defense (DoD), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and American Heart Association (AHA). 

Selected Publications

  • * Mentored student author
    • Christensen Pacella, K., Bottera, A. R., Averyt, J., Bedard, S. P., De Young, K. P., Feizi Lighvan, R., Irish, L. A., Johnson, N. K., Kinkel-Ram, S., Klaver, E., Lampe, E., & Olsen, J. (in press). Eat, sleep – How and when to treat: A guide for leveraging behavioral sleep medicine for co-occurring insomnia in eating disorder treatment. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention.
    • Bottera, A. R., Thomeczek, M. L., Rasheed, S.*, Christensen Pacella, K. A., Girard, J., Chen, Y., Oehlert, M., Wendler, A., & Forbush, K. T. (2025). Insomnia predicts risk for binge eating and restricting in United States veterans. European Eating Disorders Review. 
    • Christensen Pacella, K.A., Bottera, A.R., Forbush, K.T., Isquith, J., & De Young, K. A. (2025). Feasibility, and Acceptability of Brief Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia after Eating Disorder Treatment: The TIRED Study. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 
    • Irish, L., Bottera, A. R., Manasse, S., Christensen Pacella, K., & Schaefer, L. M. (2024). The integration of sleep research into eating disorders research: Recommendations and best practices. International Journal of Eating Disorders.
    • Bottera, A. R., Dougherty, E. N., Todorov, S.*, & Wildes, J. E. (2024). Fear of negative evaluation and intolerance of uncertainty: Assessing potential internalizing correlates of eating disorder-related clinical impairment and differences between diagnostic presentations. Eating Behaviors.
    • Bottera, A. R., Dougherty, E. N., Forester, G., Peterson, C., Crosby, R., Engel, S., Crow, S., Wildes, J. E., & Wonderlich, S. (2024). Changes in evening-shifted loss of control eating severity following treatment for binge-eating disorder. Psychological Medicine.
    • Bottera, A. R., & De Young, K. P. (2024). Loss of control eating exhibits an evening diurnal shift among women with bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. European Eating Disorders Review, 32(1),56-65.
    • Kambanis, P. E., Bottera, A. R., & De Young, K. P. (2023). Responses to bright light exposure in individuals with binge-spectrum eating disorders characterized by high dietary restraint and negative affect. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 56(12), 2250-2259.
    • Bottera, A. R., & De Young, K. P. (2023). Characterizing naturalistic meal timing, energy intake, and macronutrient intake among individuals with loss of control eating. Appetite, 184, 106524.
    • Bottera, A. R. & Luzier, J. L. (2023). Eating disorder treatment dropout: What factors influence access to specialty care in an under-resourced Appalachian region?. Journal of Rural Mental Health, 47(2), 123–128. 
    • De Young, K.P. & Bottera, A.R. (2022). A biobehavioral circadian model of restrictive eating and binge eating. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 1-5. 

Recent/ Current Research Support

  • Biobehavioral Rhythm Intervention for Targeting Binge Eating and Restriction (BRITER): A Novel Digital Health Treatment. American Heart Association Career Development Award (07/01/26 – 06/30/29), Bottera (PI).
  • Building Healthy Eating and Self-Esteem Together for University Students (BEST-U): A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an mHealth Intervention for Binge-Spectrum Disorders. National Institutes of Health R34 (01/01/25 – 12/31/28), Forbush & Christensen Pacella (MPIs), Bottera (Co-I).
  • Assessment of Eating Disorders and Comorbidity Risk and Resilience in a Nationally Representative Sample of Recent Military Enlistees. Department of Defense HT (04/15/23 – 04/14/27), Forbush (PI), Bottera (Co-I).
  • RISE: A Brief Culturally Congruent Eating Disorder Treatment for Black Postpartum Individuals. National Eating Disorders Association Early Career Investigator Research Grant (01/01/26 – 12/31/27), Thomeczek (PI), Bottera (Co-I).