Ili Ma is an assistant professor in the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

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Ili Ma is an assistant professor in the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. 

Ili is broadly interested in how adolescents acquire information and how this shapes their beliefs, attitudes, and decisions. Her research focuses on how adolescents’ and young adults’ views on societal issues are shaped by exposure to online (dis)information and digital manipulation. By combining social media data, behavioral experiments, computational methods, and interventions, her work seeks both to advance fundamental understanding and to strengthen young people’s resilience to manipulation. She is the principal investigator of the Cognition in Development (CoDe) Lab, which actively welcomes collaborations with societal partners, including youth organisations, schools, and policymakers.

For more information see the CoDe Lab website

Funding

•    2025 ERC Starting Grant
•    2024 Starter grant
•    2024 NWO XS
•    2020 National Science Foundation
•    2018 NWO Rubicon

Teaching

•    Developmental and Educational Psychology (Coordinator)
•    Master theses
•    Bachelor projects
•    Research internships
•    Perspective on Career Planning
•    The Adolescent Brain 

Committees

•    Theme lead Technology and Society: AI for Humans, Society and Science
•    Bachelor Education Committee member
•    Faculty Council member (2023-2025)

Publications