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Brian Meier

Sarah Vahed

Sarah Vahed has an interdisciplinary background, having studied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Law. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Decision Neuroscience at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, the Netherlands. Her research examines how people form judgements and make decisions related to pressing societal and moral issues, such as economic inequality, social injustice, and online harm.

Lieke Braadbaart

Dr. Lieke Braadbaart obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, investigating the neural correlates of complex manual and facial imitation using fMRI, and how these correlates might differ in young people with autism. Previous to this she had finished a BA in Liberal Arts & Sciences at Maastricht University, focusing on Social Science, after which she completed an MSc in Social Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen, whereby her research on the imitation mechanisms at work during simultaneous EEG-fMRI resulted in her first two first-author publications.

Julia Rohrer

Julia is a PhD student at the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course in Berlin, investigating the determinants of well-being across the life course. She received her Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Leipzig in 2016. She is currently an associate editor for In-Mind and manages the research participation section. You can follow her on twitter @dingding_peng.

Irena Boskovic

Irena is a Ph.D. Candidate at both Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and University of Portsmouth (UK). Her main research interest is in testing the efficiency of different methods used in the detection of people who fabricate their symptoms in order to receive benefits (i.e., malinger). Mainly, Irena is focused on investigating malingered Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), as well as comorbid problems such as anxiety and common physical symptoms (e.g., pain, fatigue etc.).

Marlene Werner

Marlene Werner is a graduated Master’s student of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands. She is a  Ph.D. at the Department of Sexology and Psychosomatic Gynaecology at the AUMC (Location Academic Medical Center), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ellen Laan and Prof. Dr. Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw. The Ph.D. focuses on the sexual health of women who have received chemo(radio)therapy due to cancer and the role of testosterone in the sexual health of (these) women. Marlene’s research interests span sexology and (psychological) research methods. She is fascinated by the question of how to best conceptualize the nature and interplay of sexual desire, sexual pleasure, and sexual function.

Ivan Mangiulli

Dr. Ivan Mangiulli is a clinical and legal psychologist. He obtained a double-doctorate PhD at Maastricht University (the Netherlands) and at the University of Bari A. Moro (Italy). He currently works at the Catholic University of Leuven. His research mainly focuses on dissociative and simulated amnesia (i.e., memory loss), lying, misinformation, and overall memory for criminal experiences.

Samuel Sturaro

Samuel Sturaro was an ERASMUS+ intern at the University of Surrey. He has recently been awarded a MSc in Community Psychology, Wellness Promotion and Social Change (University of Padova). His research interests are reclaiming and sexual prejudice.

Kaska Kubacka

Julia Asbrand

Prof. Dr. Julia Asbrand is Professor of Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence at the University of Jena and a licensed child and adolescent psychotherapist. Her research focuses on anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence as well as effects of societal crises on children and adolescents.