Candice Odgers

About Candice

Candice Odgers is Associate Dean for Research and a Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology and Informatics at the University of California Irvine. She co-directs both the Child & Brain Development Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and CERES, an international network evaluating the impact of digital technologies for children and adolescents.

She is trained at the University of Virginia as a developmental and quantitative psychologist and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Social and Genetic Psychiatry Center in London. Her program of research focuses on how both early adversity and daily experiences influence children’s health and development.

With over 20 years of experience leading research on adolescent mental health, her team captures the daily lives of adolescents on their smartphones and works with young people, parents, and policy-makers to implement science-based solutions. Odgers has been recognized for her scientific contributions with awards from the Association for Psychological Science, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Jacobs Foundation, Society for Research in Child Development, and the William T. Grant Foundation.

Odgers has written for The Atlantic, taken the mainstage at The Aspen Ideas Festival, and has been featured for her science in the New York Times. She is the author of over 100 scientific publications, has been named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, and her research has been broadly covered in outlets such as the Economist, London Times, Scientific American, and the Washington Post.

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Award Winning Psychologist, Author, Speaker & Leading Voice on Growing up in the Digital Age

Candice Odgers is an award winning psychologist, scientist, and expert on adolescent mental health. She is a leading authority on how to best support and protect children in the digital age. With over 20 years of experience leading research on adolescent mental health, her team captures the daily lives of adolescents on their smartphones and works with young people, parents, and policy-makers to implement science-based solutions. 

As a parent of two adolescents, she understands the day to day challenges of supporting and protecting young people in a rapidly changing and increasingly digital world. Odgers provides an authoritative and trusted view on the science alongside solutions that parents and policy-makers can use to both keep adolescents safe and support their still developing brains and bodies. Odgers has written for The Atlantic, taken the mainstage at The Aspen Ideas Festival, and has been featured for her science in the New York Times. She is the author of over 100 scientific publications which have been covered in outlets such as the Economist, London Times, Scientific American, and the Washington Post. She is currently a Chancellor’s Professor & Associate Dean at the University of California, Irvine.

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