Natalie D. Eggum

Natalie D. Eggum serves as Associate Professor and Director of The ECLIPSE Studies Lab at Arizona State University's T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, conducting internationally focused research on child and adolescent social-emotional development.

Her educational credentials include a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology (2009), M.A. in Psychology (2006), and B.A. in Psychology (2003), all earned at Arizona State University.

Research centers on child social withdrawal, competence development, and adversity impacts through latent variable modeling of longitudinal data. Her work establishes measurement frameworks for social behaviors while examining cross-domain adaptation effects in diverse cultural contexts.

Funding comes from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and The Brady Education Foundation. She serves as Consulting Editor for Developmental Psychology and coordinates the Sanford School's Quantitative Methodology Group.

• 2014 Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in Social Sciences
• 2016 Centennial Professorship Award

Teaches undergraduate Social Statistics and graduate courses including Latent Growth & Mixture Models. Advisory service extends through dissertation supervision and leadership in quantitative methodology training. Also serves on the Advisory Board for Be Human(e), an AI-based parental development platform.