学术职位：

2022-至今 北京师范大学心理学部，副教授

2022-至今 美国西奈山伊坎医学院儿科系客座副教授

2020-2021 美国西奈山伊坎医学院，博士后

教育背景：

2016-2020 美国Fordham University，发展心理学，博士

2013-2016 美国普渡大学，人类发展与家庭研究，硕士

2011-2013 美国宾夕法尼亚大学，人类发展，硕士

2007-2011 上海外国语大学，英语语言文学，学士

发表文章（*代表通讯作者）：

1.      Niu, L. Tan, L. Diaz, A., Xiao, Y., *Li, Y., Wang Y. (2026). Neighborhood disadvantage and adolescent sleep health: A longitudinal population-based study. The Lancet Regional Health – Americas.

2.      Ren, G., Zhao, S., Wei, L., Zhang, K., Li, Y., Chen, F., & *Niu, L. (2026). Pubertal Timing and Adolescent Aggression: The Moderating Roles of Peer Group Popularity and Social Preference. Journal of Youth and Adolescence

3.      Niu, L., Ji, J., Zhang, Z., Li, L., Xiang, M., & *Li, Y. (2026). Fitbit measured physical activity and sedentary behavior and mental health. Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

4.      Niu, L., Liu, S., Chen, R., Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Lin, S., *Li, Y., Pagán, J. A., Moran, E. A., & Diaz, A. (2025). Association of childhood maltreatment with hypertension outcomes in adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Child Abuse & Neglect.

5.      Zhao, S., Li., X., Li, Y., Chen, L., Ye, Z., & *Niu, L. (2025). Reframing Stress: The Impact of Stress Mindset on Adolescent Sleep Health. Journal of Research on Adolescence. doi:10.1111/jora.70078

6.      Zhao, S., Li, X., Gao, X., Lv, Y., Cao, Y., Mi, G., ... *Niu, L., & *Li, Y. (2025). Ranking factors across multiple domains in predicting adolescent mental health: a Bayesian machine learning approach. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 19(1), 1-10.

7.      Liu, X., Ma, C., *Niu, L., & Lin, J. (2025). The Longitudinal Relationships Between Sleep Problems and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Early Adolescents: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis. Development and Psychopathology.

8.      Niu, L., Gao, Q., Xie, M., Yip, T., Gunnar, M. R., Wang, W., ... & *Lin, D. (2025). Association of childhood adversity with HPA axis activity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 106124. doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106124

9.      Niu, L., Chen, Y., Wang, Y., *Li, Y, & Diaz, A. (2025). Association between adverse childhood experience and adolescent depressive symptoms: Mediating roles of school disengagement and school involvement. Journal of Adolescent Health.

10.   Liu, S., English, D., Xiao, Y., Li, Y., & *Niu, L. (2025). Sexual and gender minority identity, peer victimization, and suicidality in adolescents: an observational mediation study using the ABCD Study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

11.   Ye, Z., Wu, K., Niu, L., Li, Y., Chen, Z., *Chen, L., & *Zhao, S. (2025). Peer victimization and school engagement among Chinese adolescents: Does classroom-level victimization matter? Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

12.   Niu, L.  *Li, Y., Bai, R., Pagan, J., Zhang, D., & Diaz, A. (2024). Global prevalence of violence against children and adolescents during COVID-19: A meta-analysis. Child Abuse & Neglect.

13.   Niu, L., French, D., Wang, Y., Zhang, J., & *Lin, D. (2024). Childhood maltreatment and drinking and smoking trajectories in Chinese adolescents. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health.

14.   Niu, L., Sheffield, P., & *Li, Y. (2023). Pubertal timing, neighborhood income and mental health problems in boys and girls. Social Science & Medicine.

15.   Niu L., Herrera, M. T., Girma, B., Liu, B., Glassberg, J., Schinasi, L., Clougherty, J., & *Sheffield, P. (2023). Temperature and mental health-related emergency department and hospital admissions among children, adolescents, and young adults. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences.

16.   Niu, L., Zhang, D., Shi, L., Han, X., Chen, Z., Chen, L., Wen, M., Li, H., Chen, B., Li, J., *Su, D., & *Li, Y. (2023). Racial disparities in sleep quality under the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism. Journal of Urban Health.

17.   Niu, L., Hu, L., Li, Y., & *Liu, B. (2022). Correlates of cancer prevalence at the neighborhood level in the United States: A Bayesian machine learning approach. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology.

18.   *Niu, L., Brown, J. L., Hoyt, L. T., Salandy, A., Nucci-Sack, A., Shankar, V., Burk, D. R., Schlecht, N. F., & Diaz, A. D. (2021). Profiles of childhood maltreatment: Associations with sexual risk behavior during adolescence in a sample of racial/ethnic minority girls. Child Development, 92(4), 1421-1438

19.   *Niu, L., Hoyt, L. T., Pickering, S., Nucci-Sack, A., Salandy, A., Shankar, V., Rodriguez, E.M., Burk, D. R., Schlecht, N. F., & Diaz, A. D. (2021). Neighborhood profiles and body mass index trajectory in female adolescents and young adults. Journal of Adolescent Health, 69(6), 1024-1031.

20.   *Niu, L., Hoyt, L. T., Shane, J., & Storch, E. A. (2021). Associations between subjective social status and psychological well-being among college students. Journal of American College Health, 1-8.

21.   Niu, L., Herrera, M. T., Girma, B., Liu, B., Schinasi, L., Clougherty, J., & Sheffield, P. (2021). High ambient temperature and child emergency and hospital visits in New York City.  Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 36(1), 36-44.

22.   Niu L., Herrera, M. T., Girma, B., Liu, B., Glassberg, J., Schinasi, L., Clougherty, J., & Sheffield, P. (2021). Are children with medical complexity more susceptible to heat? A case-crossover analysis of ambient temperature and emergency visits. Journal of Applied Research on Children.

23.   Hoyt, L. T., Zeiders, H. K., Chaku, N., Niu, L., & Cook, S. (2021). Identifying diurnal cortisol profiles among young adults: Physiological signatures of mental health trajectories. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 128, 105204.

24.   Niu, L., Hoyt, L. T., Salandy, A., Nucci-Sack, A., Shankar, V., Strickler, H., . . . Diaz, A. (2020). The interaction between pubertal timing and childhood maltreatment on the risk of human papillomavirus infection among adolescent girls and young women. Preventive Medicine, 138, 106126.

25.   Hoyt, L. T., Niu, L., Pachucki, M. C., & Chaku, N. (2020). Timing of puberty in boys and girls: Implications for population health. Social Science & Medicine-Population Health, 10, 100549.

26.   Niu, L., Hoyt, L. T., & Pachucki, M. C. (2018). Context matters: Adolescent neighborhood and school influences on young adult body mass index. Journal of Adolescent Health, 64(3), 405-410.

27.   Zhang, Y., Niu, L., Zhang, D., Ip, P., Ho, F., Jiang, Y., ... & Jiang, F. (2019). Social-emotional functioning explains the effects of physical activity on academic performance among Chinese primary school students: A mediation analysis. The Journal of Pediatrics.

28.   Lu, T., Jin, S., Li, L., Niu, L., Chen, X., & French, D. C. (2018). Longitudinal associations between popularity and aggression in Chinese middle and high school adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 54(12), 2291.

29.   Li, L., Jin, S., Niu, L., Feng, Y., & French, D. C. (2016). Tobacco use by middle and high school Chinese adolescents and their friends. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46(6), 1262-1274.

30.   Niu, L., Xu, S., Li, L., Jin, S., Chen, X., & French, D. C. (2015). Popularity and social preference in Chinese adolescents: Associations with social and behavioral adjustment. Social Development, 25(4), 828-845.

 

科研项目:

1.     国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目，青春期发育对青少年心理行为发展的影响及生理机制，2024-2026，主持

2.     中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助，青春期发育对青少年心理健康的作用，2022-2024，主持

3.      北京师范大学心理学部自主科研项目，青春期发育在青少年心理问题形成中的作用及生理机制，2022-2024，主持

4.     Pediatric Health and Extreme Weather - Health Effects of Ambient Temperature，National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences（R01；PI：Perry Sheffield），2019-2021，参与

5.     Cervical, Anal, and Oral HPV Persistence among Adolescent Girls，National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases（R01；PI：Angela Diaz)， 2017-2022，参与

6.     Social Network Analysis of Puberty, Activity Behaviors, and Health Disparities，National Institute of Nursing Research（R21；PI：Lindsay Hoyt & Mark Pachucki），2018-2022，参与

 

2025-至今，儿童认知与情绪发展，本科生专业课

2023-至今，论文写作（发展心理学），研究生课程

2022-至今，教育心理学，本科生通时课

2019-2020，心理统计学，本科生课程

2016-2019，心理学导论，本科生课程（Lab instructor）

2016-2019，回归分析，研究生课程（Lab instructor）

2016-2019，心理统计学，研究生课程（Lab instructor）

期刊审稿人：

Child Development，Developmental Psychology, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Research on Adolescence，JAMA Network Open, Pediatrics，American Journal of Preventive Medicine，Youth and Society，Obesity Reviews，Environmental Research，Hypertension，Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being

 

学术任职：

北京慢性病防治与健康教育研究会会员

中华预防医学会行为健康分会委员

北京妇产学会心理分会委员

青少年研究学会(Society for Research on Adolescence，SRA)宣传委员会委员

美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）行为与社会科学领域青年学者最佳论文奖（2021）

青少年研究学会（Society of Research on Adolescence，SRA），Emerging Scholars Spotlight，https://www.s-r-a.org/es-spotlight--march-2021（2021）