Eva Back Madsen

Eva Back Madsen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Early Intervention and Family Studies (CIF) within the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Her work examines parental reflective functioning and infant socioemotional development in first-time parents through community-based quantitative studies.

She earned her PhD in 2024 from the University of Copenhagen with research on parental reflective functioning associations with infant development and parental attachment. Previously, she served as a research assistant in the Copenhagen Infant Mental Health Project (CIMHP) from 2017 to 2020.

Her research centers on parental mentalization capacities, specifically how parents' reflection on infant mental states influences socioemotional outcomes. She develops and validates instruments like the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire-Infant version (PRFQ-I) and investigates mind-mindedness, attachment dynamics, and social media impacts on parental well-being. Her methodological focus on quantitative analysis supports robust examination of parent-infant relational patterns.

Publications from 2023-2025 reveal consistent thematic concentration on first-time parental experiences, with emerging trends in cross-parental agreement studies and digital media influences. Her work demonstrates strong institutional collaboration within CIF, particularly through the Understanding Your Baby (UYB) initiative.

Dr. Madsen maintains active affiliation with the Center for Early Intervention and Family Studies (CIF), contributing to the Copenhagen Infant Mental Health Project (CIMHP) and UYB initiatives that develop evidence-based early intervention frameworks for infant mental health support.

No scientific awards or grant details are documented in available sources. She shows no current student supervision activity, consistent with her recent PhD completion and postdoctoral research focus.