Magazine staff

Jessica Tomory

Jessica Tomory is currently a PhD student in the Department of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California.  Jessica researches leadership and social identity processes within and between groups. She is particularly interested in factors that strengthen or weaken followers’ trust in their leader(s). 

Fei Bi Chan

Fei Bi Chan (she/her) is a counseling psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Louisville. She studied psychology and dance at the University of Minnesota. Her research interest lies in the area of personal and collective healing for individuals affected by colonial and racial violence through modalities such as cultural practices, movement and art, community engagement, and activism. 

Marco van Bommel

Marco van Bommel earned his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Utrecht University, and his Master’s degree in Social psychology from the VU University Amsterdam. Currently he is finalizing his dissertation on the bystander effect, and has a research position on bystander intervention at the VU department of Social and Organizational psychology and the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. Some of his research interests are bystander intervention, pro-social behavior, social pressure, reputation, and eyewitness memory. 

Sam Boeve

Sam Boeve is a cognitive psychologist and doctoral researcher at Ghent University. His work focuses on the role of predictions during reading and how this skill develops. Using precise eye-tracking recordings and different types of language models, he investigates how readers anticipate and process information. He has a strong interest in language comprehension in both humans and artificial systems.

Katerina Pouilasi

Katerina Pouliasi holds a phd in ‘Culture, Self understanding and the bicultural mind’ (University of Utrecht).

 When individuals live actively with more than one culture they, partly unconsciously, partly deliberately, may change and acquire a ‘bi(multi)cultural mind’. Katerina has investigated how children and adults “manage” to produce spontaneous behavior that can, dependent on the situation, match the expectations of either culture. Her tailor-made surveys and workshops help participants be aware and navigate culture-driven differences in private and professional settings (For more info: www.in2cultures.nl).

Bindal Makwana

Bindal Makwana received her B.S. in Psychology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Her thesis examined language mediation of behavior control in relation to structural brain development. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Idaho State University. Her research interests are in health, neuropsychology and neuroimaging.

Marleen Gillebaart

Marleen Gillebaart is an assistant professor with the Self-Regulation Lab at Utrecht University. She specializes in research on mechanisms of successful self-control, self-control strategies, and underlying processes of self-control conflict resolution and appraisal.

Andreas Baranowski

Dr. Andreas Baranowski studied psychology at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and the Universidad de Salamanca. He earned his Ph.D. at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Since 2016, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience at the Justus-Liebig-Universität (JLU) Giessen. His research focus includes sexual psychology, courtship behavior, and media effects research.

Kaitlyn Werner

Kaitlyn is an editor at the English version of In-Mind magazine. She is currently an NIH postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Translational Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. Broadly, her research takes a multi-method and interdisciplinary approach to studying self-regulation, motivation, and emotion, with a particular emphasis on how to help people achieve their goals. Previously, she was a Provost’s postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, a SSHRC Banting postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Toronto, and received her PhD in social, personality, and health psychology from Carleton University. To learn more about Kaitlyn, you can check out her website here.

Alana C. Krix

Alana Krix is originally from Germany, and is currently completing her doctoral studies at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is conducting research on best-practice regarding obtaining reliable eyewitness statements.