Carli Ochs is a Post-doctoral researcher who joined the team in September 2023. Ochs’s research focuses on how technology, particularly smartphones, affects individual users as well as, more widely, social interactions and society. Ochs obtained her PhD from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Ochs was awarded funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation to continue her research after completing her PhD. With the funding, she is researching with Dr. Kostadin Kushlev on how smartphone use and type of use across different social contexts affect smartphone users’ well-being.