Patti M. Valkenburg is Distinguished research professor in ASCoR, and director of CCAM. Her research interests include children's development as media consumers, and the cognitive, emotional, and social effects of media and technologies on children and adolescents.

Valkenburg received her MSc (1992, cum laude) and PhD (1995, cum laude) from Leiden University. In 2003, she was awarded aVici grant, and in 2010 an ERC Advanced Investigator grant, which is the highest European scientific recognition. She has published 99 peer-reviewed articles, 5 books, and 32 book chapters. She has been recognized as the most productive communication scientist in Europe. In 2011, she was awarded the Spinoza award, which is the highest scientific award in the Netherlands. Valkenburg is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.

Valkenburg is a member of the board of the Social Science Division (MaGW) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research (NWO). She is associate editor of Human Communication Research and a member of the editorial boards of five other journals in her field. In 2008, she founded the first international academic division Children, Adolescents, and the Media within the International Communication Association, which now hosts 280 international researchers focusing on youth and the media.

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