ReSIC Seminar - Chelly MAES

Chelly Maes is an Assistant Professor at ULB, part of the Department of Communication and Information Sciences. She previously held a postdoctoral position at the Winston National Center on Technology, Brain, and Psychological Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has also served as a Guest Professor in Communication Sciences at the University of Antwerp and remains affiliated with the Media Psychology Lab at KU Leuven, where she completed her doctoral studies. She was the Student and Early Career Representative for the Children, Adolescents, and Media Division of the International Communication Association. Her research examines how digital media experiences relate to key developmental tasks, including body image, sexuality, identity development, and mental health, drawing on theoretical perspectives from communication science and developmental psychology. At KU Leuven, she co-supervises three PhD projects. Her research is supported by competitive funding from Horizon Europe, BOF, and FWO. She has published extensively in Q1-ranked international journals across five ISI-WOS domains, authored book chapters, and presented her work more than 30 times at major international conferences.

In her talk, she will discuss four types of quantative methods (i.e., longitudinal survey research, daily diaries, online experiments, & data donation) and how she applied this in her research.

This seminar will be held both online and in room DC11.218.

This seminar will be held in room DC11.218 and online.