Patti Valkenburg#
| Membership Number: | 6877 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.pattivalkenburg.nl/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0477-8429 |
| Twitter: | @pmvalkenburg |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present University Distinguished Professor of Media, Youth, and Society, University of Amsterdam
- 2011 - 1016 Distinguished Research Professor of Media and Child Development in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam.
- 2003 - present Founding Director of CcaM, ASCoR’s Center for Research on Children, Adolescents and the Media (25 researchers)
- 1998 - 2013 Research professor of Youth and Media, Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR, University of Amsterdam
- 1997 - 2003 Postdoctoral fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW fellow), ASCoR, University of Amsterdam
- 1996 - 1997 Postdoctoral fellow of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), ASCoR, University of Amsterdam.
- 1995 - 1996 Assistant Professor of Communication, Dept. of Communication, University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Well-being
- Youth
- Social media
- Adolescents
- Media theory
- Media effects
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA)
- 2010 ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council
- 2011 The Spinoza Award from the Dutch Research Council, Highest academic award in the Netherlands. Prize comes with € 2,5 million.
- 2011 Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2011 The Hendrik Muller Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2013 Appointed as University Distinguished Professor
- 2016 The Career Achievement Award by the International Communication Association
- 2016 Fellow of the Royal Holland Society of Science and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen)
- 2018 Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
- 2020 - 2023 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Vienna
- 2023 The Innovation Grant for Method from the International Communication
- Association
- Also multiple Best Article Awards and Top Paper Awards from the International Communication Association, our premier professional association
