About Adaptlab
The Adaptation, Development and Positive Transitions Lab (Adaptlab) is located at the University of California, Irvine while working with collaborators all over the world. Our team focuses on mapping trajectories of children and adolescents’ development in daily life and across the lifecourse using a broad range of methods ranging from deploying wearable sensors to merging large-scale administrative records. We are committed to designing and conducting rigorous research to advance the science of child and adolescent health and to openly sharing our research protocols, data, and findings.
About Candice Odgers
Candice Odgers is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Psychological Science at the University of California Irvine. She also co-directs the Child & Brain Development Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the CERES Network funded by the Jacobs Foundation.
Her team has been capturing the daily lives and health of adolescents using mobile phones and sensors over the past decade. More recently, she has been working to leverage digital technologies to better support the needs of children and adolescents as they come of age in an increasingly unequal and digital world.
She is the author of over 100 scientific publications and her research has been disseminated widely via outlets such as the Economist, New York Times, Scientific American, and the Washington Post.