Candice L. Odgers (UCI)

Candice L. 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. 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.