Markus Raab
Markus Raab
Prof. Dr. Dr. Markus Raab is a sport scientist, psychologist, professor and head of the Section Performance Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at the German Sport University Cologne.
Thomas Schubert
Thomas Schubert
Thomas W. Schubert received his Diploma and PhD in Psychology from the University of Jena in Germany. After staying as a postdoc at the International Graduate Colleage of Conflict and Cooperation in Jena and at the University of Würzburg, Germany, he obtained a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation and came to the Netherlands to work at the VU University Amsterdam and Utrecht University. Thomas' primary research interests focus on the embodiment of social relations, and experiences in virtual environments. Mail:schubert@igroup.org
Matteo Masi
Matteo Masi
Matteo Masi received his Ph.D. from the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Surrey, and he is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His interests are in social psychology, in particular social cognition and impression formation, that is how we represent others in our minds and how we judge them by combining available information.
Laysee Ong
Laysee Ong
Lay See Ong is a postgraduate student at the Singapore Management University. Supervised by Angela Leung, her research interests varies (too broadly for her own good!) from creativity to mobility and self-regulation. One of her recent research projects investigated the beliefs about hierarchy among high and low relational mobility individuals. To know more her research exploits, you can visit her website. As a side project, she is also exploring and advocating the use of the virtual world, Second Life, for psychological research. While she’s not working, she enjoys good music, reading, and her pole dancing classes. E-mail: l.ong@in-mind.org
Dr. Gizem Samdan
Dr. Gizem Samdan
Dr. Gizem Samdan is a Research Fellow at Heidelberg University, Germany, in the Department of Developmental Psychology. She is currently working on a longitudinal study, where she is contributing to the understanding of early childhood development and how it shapes later life, with a focus on the role of socio-ecological factors.
Ryan Elder
Ryan Elder
Ryan S. Elder is an assistant professor of Marketing at the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in 2011 from the University of Michigan. His research explores the interplay between sensory perception and cognition within an advertising context, with a particular focus on imagery.
Lili R. Romann
Lili R. Romann
Lili R. Romann, M.A., is a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut in the Department of Communication studying computer-mediated and health communication. She researches online health information-seeking in algorithmically-dominated social media spaces, as well as patient-provider communication. Additionally, she has served as a graduate assistant in the Department of Communication, the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Department of Journalism.
Frank Bosco
Frank Bosco
Dr. Frank Bosco is a member of the Department of Management at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research spans the areas of human resource management, organizational behavior, and organizational research methods. Dr. Bosco is especially interested in employee staffing (e.g., employee selection), cognitive ability testing, meta-analysis, big data, open science, and approaches for summarizing entire scientific literatures. His research appears in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, and Personnel Psychology. Dr. Bosco is co-Founder of metaBUS.org, a winner of the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities's Digging into Data Challenge and currently funded by the National Science Foundation, SHRM Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership. When launched, the project will enable researchers and practitioners to make sense of more than 1,000,000 research findings by navigating an easy-to-understand "map" of constructs that conducts instant meta-analyses on virtually any topic in the scientific space.
Milan Büscher
Milan Büscher
Milan Büscher, PhD, is an environmental psychologist. His research focuses on behaviors that conserve biodiversity (such as reducing animal consumption) and the factors that influence them. Milan enjoys spending his free time in nature and experimenting with vegan cuisine. He has also tried insect burgers (with Lena) but is particularly excited about cultivated meat.
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets is an associate professor at Maastricht University. His primary research interest concerns the “Neurobiology of Learning and Memory”, with a specific emphasis on the modulating role of stress and stress hormones (e.g., cortisol) on memory performance. Currently, he is running several research projects that aim to better understand why some people, when stressed, revert to their old, maladaptive habits (e.g., bingeing, smoking, drinking) by unravelling the underlying brain mechanisms.