Julia Jäkel (Jaekel)

Dr. phil. | Clin. Dipl. Psych. | Habilitation
Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology
Psychology

Values, Ideologies and Social Contexts of Education
Faculty of Education and Psychology

Julia joined the University of Oulu in August 2021 after six years at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA. She received her professional degree of clinical psychology (2004), Dr. phil. in psychology (2008), and higher doctorate/venia legendi (2015) in developmental psychology from the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. In addition to her professorship in Oulu, she is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen, University Hospital Essen (Germany), the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), University of Warwick (UK) and University of Leicester (UK).

Julia's main research areas are early life stress and long-term resilience. She is involved in multiple longitudinal studies of diverse populations, working with international interdisciplinary teams. Her goal is to contribute to understanding the complex biopsychosocial mechanisms that control mental health, cognitive, academic, and social development over time, to design effective avenues towards intervention. Julia's track record contains >100 publications and >1.25 million EUR received in research funding.

Research interests

long-term development; early life stress; risk and resilience; preterm birth; mental health; social behaviour; parenting; intervention; migration

Researcher information

Research groups

Researcher profiles

Selected recent publications

Jaekel, J., Anderson, P. J., Bartmann, P., Cheong, J. L. Y., Doyle, L. W., Hack, M., Johnson, S., Marlow, N., Saigal, S., Schmidt, L., Sullivan, M. C., & Wolke, D. (2022). Mathematical performance in childhood and early adult outcomes after very preterm birth: an individual participant data meta-analysis. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.15132

Jaekel, J., Heinonen, K., Baumann, N., Bilgin, A., Pyhälä, R., Sorg, C., & Räikkönen, K., Wolke, D. (2023). Associations of crying, sleeping, and feeding problems in early childhood and perceived social support with emotional disorders in adulthood. BMC Psychiatry, 23 (394). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04854-1

Jaekel, N., Ritter, M., & Jaekel, J. (2023). Associations of students’ linguistic distance to the language of instruction and classroom composition with English reading and listening skills. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1-23. DOI: 10.1017/S0272263123000268

Kajantie, E., Johnson, S., Heinonen, Kati., Anderson, P. J., Wolke, D., Evensen, K. A. I., Räikkönen, K., Darlow, B. A., van der Pal, S., Indredavik, M. S., Jaekel, J., Hovi, P., Morrison, K., Verrips, E., Doyle, L. W., & APIC Adults Born Preterm International Collaboration (2021). Common core assessments in follow-up studies of adults born preterm - recommendation of the Adults born Preterm International Collaboration. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 35(3), 371-387. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ppe.12694

Wolke, D., Baumann, N., Jaekel, J., Pyhälä, R., Heinonen, K., Räikkönen, K., Sorg, C., & Bilgin, A. (2023). The association of early regulatory problems with behavioral problems and cognitive functioning in adulthood: Two cohorts in two countries. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64, 876-885. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13742

Contact information

E-mail

julia.jaekel@oulu.fi

Visiting address

Linnanmaa Campus, room FY 266-1

Keywords

learning disabilities social interaction Psychology multidisciplinarity multiculturalism child psychiatry Public health care science, life course and health cohort research