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Tilo Strobach

Prof. Dr. Tilo Strobach studied psychology at the Free University in Berlin and started his doctorate at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2006. After a research stay at the University of California, San Diego he finished his doctoral degree in 2009 on mechanisms of optimized dual-task performance after practice. After that he hold post-doc positions at the chair of general and experimental psychology at the LMU Munich and at the chair of general psychology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He also was an acting professor at University of Hagen. Now, Tilo Strobach is a professor in general psychology at the Medical School Hamburg. He focuses his research on the analysis of cognitive plasticity as a result of training (for example: video-game, dual-task, working memory, and task switching training) and aging, the specification of cognitive processing architecture in situations that demand executive functions as well as the perception of complex objects.

Nicholas O. Rule

Nicholas O. Rule, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology and Canada Research Chair in Social Perception and Cognition at the University of Toronto. His research has been recognized through several awards, including the Early Career Award from the International Social Cognition Network, SAGE Young Scholar Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, Early Career Award from the International Academy for Intercultural Research, and Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario.

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Catherine E. Hamilton-Giachritsis

Catherine Hamilton‐Giachritsis (Forensic and Clinical Psychologist) is a Reader in Applied Forensic Psychology at the University of Bath. Catherine has worked in the field of child maltreatment for over 20 years. In the last decade, her work has focused on online child sexual exploitation and abuse, from both victim and offender perspectives.

Andrew Moynihan

Andrew Moynihan, PhD, is a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His research interests are how people engage in unhealthy or interpersonal behaviours as means to escape from threats to meaning in life (e.g., boredom, disbelief in free will) and the variables that promote or hinder these tendencies. He is also interested in identity-related research.

Aline Lima-Nunes

Aline Lima-Nunes holds a Master’s degree in Social Psychology from the Federal University of Paraíba – Brazil. Her main interests are justice perceptions, intergroup conflicts, prejudice and discriminatory behavior.

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Markus Denzler

Markus Denzler received his Ph. D. at International University Bremen. His research focuses on the study of the psychological processes underlying a variety of phenomena. Ranging from basic topics such as antecedents and consequences of (unconscious) goal fulfilment, to more applied ones like aggression (in particular cathartic effects), social exclusion, creativity, and the effects of alcohol on judgements. He currently works at Chemnitz University of Technology.

Kerstin Hoedlmoser

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Hoedlmoser is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Salzburg in Austria. Her research encompasses two areas of psychology: Biological Psychology (with a focus on sleep and cognition) and Sports Psychology (with an emphasis on sleep and recovery in elite sports).

Steffen Giessner

Steffen Giessner received his MSc degree in Psychology from the University of Kent at Canterbury and his PhD in Psychology from the University of Jena in Germany (within the International Graduate College of Conflict and Cooperation). He now works as an Assistant Professor at the RSM Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Steffen’s primary research interests focus on perceptions of leadership, embodiments of power perceptions, and employees' perceptions of organizational change processes.