Rate My Professor Loes Keijsers

Loes Keijsers is Full Professor of Clinical Child and Family Studies at the Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, a position she assumed on 1 November 2020. Previously, she served as an associate professor at Tilburg University. She earned her PhD in 2010 with a dissertation on parenting and juvenile delinquency. Her research focuses on adolescent well-being, parent-adolescent interactions, the effects of social media, and heterogeneity in developmental processes. She employs advanced methodologies, including Experience Sampling Methods and ecological momentary assessment via mobile phone apps, to study real-time mood swings, emotions, and daily family dynamics in teenagers.

Keijsers has obtained prestigious funding, such as the European Research Council Consolidator Grant of 2 million euros in 2022 for investigating parenting influences on adolescents, the NWO VICI grant in 2025 to improve conversations with adolescents, and the NWO VIDI grant in 2018. She has published over 50 articles in top journals, with highly cited papers including "The effect of social media on well-being differs from adolescent to adolescent" (Beyens et al., 2020), "Social media use and adolescents’ self-esteem: Heading for a person-specific media effects paradigm" (Valkenburg et al., 2021), "Parental monitoring and adolescent problem behaviors: How much do we really know?" (Keijsers, 2016), and "Developmental changes in parent–child communication throughout adolescence" (Keijsers & Poulin, 2013). She authored the book for the general public "Waarom tieners zo irritant kunnen zijn. En hoe je daar als ouder mee kunt leren leven" (2013). Keijsers impacts practice through e-health tools like the GrowIt! app for adolescent mental health support, TEDx presentations, public lectures via Universiteit van Nederland, and editorial roles, including guest editor for a special issue on parenting during the pandemic in Developmental Psychology (2021).