Patti Valkenburg

Patricia Maria (Patti) Valkenburg (born 19 August 1958, Delft) is a Distinguished Professor of Communication at the University of Amsterdam.

[1] The winners of this prize receive a small statue of Baruch Spinoza and 2.5 million euro to spend on research of their own choice.

In 2009, researchers in CCAM initiated a well-evaluated international master program Youth and Media.

Valkenburg is associate editor of Human Communication Research and a member of the editorial boards of most other journals in her field.

Valkenburg’s research interests include the cognitive, emotional, and social effects of media and technologies on children and adolescents.