Jelena Obradović
Jelena Obradović has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Stanford University since September 2009. She was the Great-West Life Junior Fellow of CIFAR in the Experience-based Brain and Biological Development program from 2009 to 2011. From 2007-2009, Jelena held a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship under the supervision of EBBD Program Co-Director Tom Boyce at the Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, with a minor in Statistics, in 2007 from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, under the supervision of Dr. Ann S. Masten. She was the recipient of an NIMH Predoctoral Training Grant for 2006-2007. Jelena also holds an M.A. from the University of Minnesota (2005) and a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon (2002).
Dr. Obradović’s research focuses on how contextual risk and adversity influence children’s adaptation across multiple domains of functioning over time. She has studied how various sources of risk and adversity influence competence, psychopathology, and physical health in diverse groups of children, including homeless and highly mobile children, immigrant adolescents, and inner-city children from high-risk, low-income backgrounds. Currently, she studies how children’s self-regulatory abilities and stress reactivity enable some socio-economically disadvantaged children to demonstrate remarkable resilience, while placing others at risk for maladaptive outcomes. Dr. Obradović is also interested in how children’s biological and behavioural susceptibilities to environmental threats and challenges are shaped by early life experiences and how in turn they affect adaptation over time.
Dr. Obradović’s research focuses on how contextual risk and adversity influence children’s adaptation across multiple domains of functioning over time. She has studied how various sources of risk and adversity influence competence, psychopathology, and physical health in diverse groups of children, including homeless and highly mobile children, immigrant adolescents, and inner-city children from high-risk, low-income backgrounds. Currently, she studies how children’s self-regulatory abilities and stress reactivity enable some socio-economically disadvantaged children to demonstrate remarkable resilience, while placing others at risk for maladaptive outcomes. Dr. Obradović is also interested in how children’s biological and behavioural susceptibilities to environmental threats and challenges are shaped by early life experiences and how in turn they affect adaptation over time.