Lara Wolfers is a tenure-track assistant professor of digital lives and heads the Center of Digital Lives at the Faculty of Psychology. Her research is in the field of media psychology. She researches the digital everyday life and how digital media influence well-being and social relationships. She has a particular focus on media use in the family, especially the use of smartphones by parents, the influence of norms and perceived media use on media effects, and the use of digital media to cope with stress. Lara Wolfers is part of the editorial boards of the journals Human Communication Research and Mobile Media & Communication and is spokesperson for the Media Use and Effects Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK).

Lara Wolfers studied Communication Science at the University of Mainz (B.A., 2014) and the University of Hohenheim (M.A., 2018). In 2021, she completed her PhD at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien in cooperation with the University of Hohenheim on the question of how parents use their smartphones to cope with stress. Her doctorate was awarded the biannual dissertation award of the Mobile Communication Division of the International Communication Association. From 2021-2025, she worked as an assistant professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research at the University of Amsterdam.