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Prof. Dr. Lara Wolfers - Professor of Digital Lives starting on April 1, 2025
Professor Lara Wolfers will take over the assistant professorship (with tenure track) for digital lives in the Faculty of Psychology on 1 April 2025. The 34-year-old media psychologist and communication scientist deals with the use of digital media and its impact on society. Her professorship focuses on the psychological aspects of digitalization, in particular how people perceive digitalization, how they deal with the increasing digitalization of processes and how digitalization can be shaped to meet people’s needs.
Lara Wolfers has been an assistant professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research since 2021 and was appointed to a permanent position there in 2022. She earned her doctorate at the University of Hohenheim in 2021 for her thesis on the use of mobile media for stress management by caregivers. Prior to that, she obtained her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in communication science at the University of Hohenheim and Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.