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Cécile Martha

Cécile Martha is a lecturer in sports science at the Aix-Marseille University (France) for 16 years, and a sports educator specialised in climbing for 18 years. She is also a former high-level athlete in sport climbing. Within the Institute of Movement Sciences (Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS), her research activities focus on psychological factors (risk perception, personality traits) associated with risk-taking in the areas of sports practice (especially sport climbing and base-jumping) and driving.

Silvia Barriga

Silvia V. Barriga Recasens received her Bachelor Degree in Psychology from Universidad de La Sabana in Bogota, Colombia. She continued her education at the Free University, Amsterdam, where she obtained a Master’s Degree in Social Psychology. Mrs. Barriga Recasens decided to stray from the path of research, and is currently employed in Human Resources at General Electric in London.

Astrid Carrapatoso

Dr. Astrid Carrapatoso is Professor of Political Science and its Didactics at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg - University of Education. She is Vice Director of the Research Center for Climate Change Education and Education for Sustainable Development (ReCCE) since 2022. Previously, she worked as an academic advisor at the Seminar for Scientific Policy at the University of Freiburg and was a visiting scholar at the University of Auckland and the Australian National University. She completed her teacher training as a social studies and English teacher at a Freiburg grammar school. Her current research focuses on education for sustainable development, climate education and democracy education.

Chelsea Ellithorpe

Chelsea Ellithorpe is an Assessment Analyst II at Auburn University. She earned her BA degrees in Neuroscience and Psychology from Boston University in 2011 and her MS degree in Social-Experimental Psychology from Mississippi State University in 2013. Her primary research interests are in social neuroscience and interpersonal relationships, including social networks research and research on love and attraction.

Andreas Mokros

Prof. Dr. Andreas Mokros studied psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and at the University of Liverpool (England). He received his doctorate from the University of Wuppertal (Germany) and his habilitation degree at the University of Regensburg (Germany). He is Chair of Personality, Legal Psychology and Assessment at the FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany), serving as Dean of the Faculty of Psychology since 2023. @andmok.bsky.social

Donald Lucas

Dr. Lucas is the chair of the psychology department at Northwest Vista College (NVC)-a community college with more than 17,000 students in San Antonio, Texas. Before joining the department in 1999, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Smith-Kettlewell Research Institute in San Francisco, and took his Ph.D. in Psychology with a specialty in Neuroscience and Behavior from Northern Illinois University.

He publishes and presents on a variety of topics about human behavior, including, psychophysics, family & domestic violence, teaching & learning, and life satisfaction.  He is the author of the book, Being: Your Happiness, Pleasure, and Contentment (Hayden-McNeil).  He has been teaching for 25 years; courses in Human Sexuality, Social Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Positive Psychology.

He was featured in the San Antonio Express-News newspaper and magazine SCENE in SA Monthly as one of San Antonio's top professors. His teaching has earned him a number of awards, including the NVC Excellence in Teaching Award, The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Doctoral Achievement Award, and the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Excellence Award. He is a Minnie Stevens Piper award winner-the oldest and most prestigious teaching award for higher education in the state of Texas.

He and his wife, Lisa, have two children, Sember and Rayen, and two purebred mutts, Macy and Barney.

Verena Klein

Dr. Verena Klein studied psychology in Heidelberg and earned her PhD at the University of Hamburg. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southampton, UK. Her research focuses on women’s sexuality, sexual desire and pleasure, as well as gender differences and similarities in sexual behavior and sexual attitudes.

Jenny C. Su

Jenny Su is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. She received her PhD in 2008 from the University of Minnesota and served as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University from 2011 to 2014. Her research focuses on culture, self-regulation, and well-being.    

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.