Dr. Laurel Raffington, Ph.D.

Early Career Collaborator

Dr. Laurel Raffington is a German-American developmental psychologist. She leads the Max Planck Research Group Biosocial at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Their research examines how social inequality affects child and adolescent development at multiple biological and psychological levels that may later lead to social disparities in adults' educational attainment and health. Recent projects have explored whether epigenetic algorithms can be used to study this "long arm of childhood". Dr. Raffington received her Ph.D. in psychology from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany whilst working at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where she later continued as a postdoctoral researcher. Her dissertation was awarded with the Otto-Hahn-Medal by the Max Planck Society and the Margret-and-Paul-Baltes Prize by the German Psychological Society. She completed postdoctoral training with Prof. Kathryn Paige Harden and Prof. Elliot Tucker-Drob at the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Psychology and Population Research Center. Connect with Dr. Raffington on Twitter and LinkedIn. Follow Dr. Raffington’s publications and other works on Research Gate and on her Website.