Jelena Obradović

Associate Professor, Developmental and Psychological Sciences program, Stanford University

Jelena Obradović is an Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Developmental and Psychological Sciences program at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She is the recipient of a Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship, a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award, and Early Career Research Contribution Award from the Society for Research in Child Development. Jelena’s research examines how the interplay of children’s physiological stress arousal, self-regulatory skills, and quality of caregiving environments contributes to their health, learning, and well-being over time. Her current work involves the development of novel, pragmatic, scalable assessments of executive functions, emotion regulation, and motivation.

 


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