Dr Ulrik Lyngs is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the Reduce Digital Distraction Project (redd-project.org), which since 2019 has helped over 2000 students and staff in higher education control their time and attention on smartphones and laptops. The project has won multiple awards, including Oxford University’s 2024 MPLS Early Career Research Impact Award. Dr Lyngs serves as research representative on Denmark’s Media Council for Children and Youth and is also a visiting researcher at the University of Copenhagen.