The professorship investigates the positive and negative consequences of digital communication (e.g., via smartphones and social media) for users’ well-being, health, and self-regulation. Current research focusses on users’ digital well-being at the interface of work and leisure, for instance, digital stress, availability pressures, procrastinatory media use, and digital communication when working from home.

The professorship works theory-driven, with a focus on media psychological and quantitative empirical approaches. Methodological foci are short-term longitudinal designs (diary & experience sampling studies), systematic literature reviews (scoping review, overviews, meta-analyses), and fostering open science practices (e.g., preregistration).