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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.

Marco Schauer

Marco Schauer is a research associate and doctoral student in the Department of Social and Political Psychology, Institute of Sustainability Psychology at Leuphana University Lüneburg. After studying and completing research internships in Germany, the Netherlands, and the USA, he is now part of the Negotiation Research Group (NRG), focusing on the processing of uncertainties and externalities in the negotiation context. His research lies at the intersection of social-psychological negotiation research and sustainability sciences, with a particular emphasis on negotiations in sustainability contexts.

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. 

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.