Luca Carbone is a postdoctoral researcher at the Media Psychology Lab at Department of Communication Sciences at KU Leuven. Luca obtained their PhD at KU Leuven in September 2024, where they worked as part of the ERC project MIMIc. They are also affiliated with the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequalities and Inclusion at Harvard University.

Luca works at the intersection of media psychology and cultural sociology to study music effects on the identities and mental health of young people, with a focus on narratives about meritocracy, success, and masculinity. They are also interested in social and communication theory, algorithms and platforms, media events and online cultures, and methods (NLP, networks, ESM, SEM, psychometrics, interviews, and archives).