Sofie Vranken is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna since October 2024.

Awards & Acknowledgements

• 2024, November
  Yearly Award for Science Communication for the project #Smokefree, KVAB – Royal Flemish Academy Of Belgium for Science and the Arts (together with Kathleen Beullens and Femke Geusens)

• 2023, May
  Promising Student Paper for the paper Unraveling adolescents' attention to alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in Instagram stories: an eye-tracking approach, Information Systems Division, ICA conference, Toronto, Canada (co-authors: Jörg Matthes, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, and Kathleen Beullens)

• 2022, February
  Frieda Saeys Prize for the paper A qualitative study exploring how boys and girls construct gender norms in alcohol-related self-presentations on social media, awarded by the Frieda Saeys Foundation, 24 Hours of Communication Sciences Conference, online conference due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (solo-authored submission).