Jean-Philippe Laurenceau is the Unidel A. Gilchrist Sparks III Chair in the Social Sciences and Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UD as well as Senior Research Scientist at Christiana Care Health System's Helen F. Graham Cancer Center and Research Institute. He completed his B.A. cum laude at Cornell University and received his master's and doctorate degrees from The Pennsylvania State University. His interests focus on understanding the processes by which partners in marital and romantic relationships develop and maintain intimacy within the context of everyday life. His methodological interests include intensive longitudinal methods and applications of modern methods for the analysis of change in individuals and dyads. More recently, Prof. Laurenceau has been studying how couples cope with and maintain connection amidst health-related adversity, including breast cancer and diabetes.

Prof. Laurenceau has been an appointed member of the Social, Personality, and Interpersonal Processes grant review panel of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Family Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In addition to having been the recipient of an NIH K01 Research Scientist Development Award, Prof. Laurenceau has been principal investigator or co-investigator on NIH-funded research projects granted by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and the National Cancer Institute. He regularly teaches methodological workshops at the University of Michigan's Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research and at Penn State's Summer Institute for Longitudinal Methods. Prof. Laurenceau is the co-author of the Guilford Press 2013 book Intensive Longitudinal Methods: An Introduction to Diary and Experience Sampling Research.