02Our Team
Meet the researchers shaping the future of digital literacy
Philipp K. Masur
Co-Director
Philipp Masur is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Managing Director of the Digital Media and Behavior Lab.read more
Douglas Parry
Co-Director
Doug Parry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the ways in which adolescents and youngread more
Jolanda Veldhuis
Co-Director
Jolanda Veldhuis is an Associate Professor in the field of Health and Risk Communication as well as Media Psychology at the Department of Communication Science (Vrije Universiteitread more
Martin Baars
Member
Martin Baars is a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research advances the emerging field of immersive disinformation byread more
Ellen Droog
Member
Ellen Droog studies how (health) misinformation on social media influences people. She examines why certain forms of misinformation resonate, such as influencer posts aboutread more
Tilo Hartmann
Member
Tilo Hartmann is Professor for Virtual Reality and Communication at the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research draws on media psychologyread more
Dian van Huijstee
Member
Dian van Huijstee is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is a misinformation researcher, with aread more
Ivar Vermeulen
Member
Ivar Vermeulen is an Associate Professor in Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specializing in persuasion research. He obtained his PhD in 2003 at the Instituteread more
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