Jozefien De Leersnyder is a tenure-track Research Professor at the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology KU Leuven, Belgium. Previously, she worked as a tenured Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and as a post-doc at the CSCP in Leuven, where she also obtained her PhD in 2014. Her research focuses on the interplay between culture, psyche and well-being, particularly in changing and diverse social worlds. In her work, Jozefien describes the phenomenon of emotional acculturation – i.e., the changes in people’s emotional life due to contact with another socio-cultural context – as well as the micro-processes that instigate emotional similarity and mutual understanding in intercultural interactions. In her studies, she employs a wide variety of methods.