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Jozefien De Leersnyder is an Associate Professor (BOFZAP) and Research Professor at the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology within the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium. She obtained her PhD from KU Leuven in 2014 on Emotional Acculturation. Prior to her current role, she held a tenured position as Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and served as an FWO postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven. Her research investigates the interplay between culture, psyche, and well-being in diverse social environments. She has advanced the understanding of emotional acculturation, describing changes in individuals' emotional patterns arising from contact with new socio-cultural contexts, and the micro-processes that promote emotional similarity and mutual understanding in intercultural exchanges. Under her ERC Starting Grant project PsychAcc, she is developing and testing a cultural psychological framework of acculturation that includes shifts in implicit cultural affiliations such as emotion, cognition, self-construal, and motivation, linking these to well-being and educational outcomes. Complementing this, she explores inclusive education through initiatives like ECDIS on ethnic cultural diversity in schools, the SBO project ENGINE addressing ethnic gaps in higher education, and JEZ-to-Emotions on emotion socialization in multicultural classrooms.