Since August 2019, Kira Thiel has been a junior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) in the competence area of
Growing Up in Digital Media Environments. Currently, she works mainly in the project "
EU Kids Online".
Her research interests include (negative) emotions in the use of media by adolescents and in particular associated coping activities.
Kira Thiel studied communication studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and children's and youth media studies at the University of Erfurt.