Magazine staff

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. 

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.

Flora Almosdi

Flora Almosdi is a graduate student at the Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology Specialisation at University of Eotvos Lorand, Budapest. Her research is focused on human-computer interaction and its social aspects. She is a member of a group that designs interventions based on environmental psychology and she volunteers at an organization for children's rights.

Carolin Schuster

Carolin Schuster studied psychology at the LMU Munich and completed her doctorate at the University of Konstanz. She is currently Junior Professor of Applied Social Psychology at Leuphana University Lüneburg and her topics of research include social identities, stereotypes and social conflicts.

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.

Maša Iskra

Maša Iskra completed her studies in Psychology and Sport Management (BSc/BA) at Manchester Metropolitan University and Sport Psychology (MSc) at the German Sport University Cologne. Since March 2022, she has been pursuing her doctorate at the Institute of Psychology, Department of Performance Psychology. Her PhD topic is the embodiment of cognition and breathing. Twitter/X: @MasaIskra

Roy Baumeister

Roy Baumeister is Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He earned his MA at Duke University and his PhD at Princeton. His research interests include self and identity, emotion, social rejection and belongingness, aggression, sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, interpersonal processes, defensiveness and self-deception, self-defeating behaviors, quest for meaning, motivated cognition, and interdisciplinary approaches to psychology.