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Gustaf Glavå

Gustaf Glavå researches and teaches about brain function. More specifically about how the brain's function and cognition change after injuries and diseases. He also researches different aspects of the psychology of fatherhood with a focus on fathers themselves.

Shana Cole

Shana Cole is is a social psychology PhD candidate at New York University. Her research broadly explores the ways in which visual perception informs, guides, and serves successful self-regulation. She studies this within a wide variety of domains, including health, culture, relationships, politics, and emotion regulation. Her dissertation work focuses on the role of visual perception in self-control conflicts, detailing visual biases that emerge as people struggle to remain committed to long-term goals in the face of temptation.    

Mira Fauth-Bühler

Mira Fauth-Bühler has served as Professor of Business Psychology and Neuroeconomics at FOM University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart since 2017. After completing her PhD in Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences at the International Max Planck Research School in Tübingen, she worked at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, the University of Cambridge, and King’s College London, and held a senior position at the Central Institute of Mental Health. Mira’s research focuses on the psychological and neural mechanisms that shape decision-making, with particular emphasis on the interplay between impulsive and deliberate behavior in contexts such as financial choices, consumption, and digitally mediated environments – including social media platforms, smartphone use, and online services. Her pioneering work in addiction research has been recognized with the Wolfram-Keup Promotion Award, the DG-Suchtforschung Prize, and the FOM Research Prize. Mira is passionately committed to making scientific insights accessible through active science communication.

Lucius Caviola

Lucius Caviola is a Psychology MSc candidate at the University of Oxford, and his research focusses on questions at the intersection of psychology, ethics and rationality. He received his BSc in Psychology from the University of Basel, and has completed full-time research internships at Oxford University’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Oxford Uehiro Centre of Practical Ethics.

Lorraine Hope

Lorraine Hope is Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at the University of Portsmouth.  Her research interests concern the performance of human cognition in applied contexts, including memory and decision-making under challenging conditions.  In particular, her work has focused on developing theoretically-informed approaches to eliciting information in policing and intelligence  contexts.  She is currently an Associate Editor for the British Psychological Society (BPS) journal, Legal and Criminological Psychology and a Consulting Editor for the American Psychological Association (APA) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.  She has published widely on both witness memory and investigative interviewing and regularly speaks at international conferences aimed at both academics and investigative practitioners. 

Susannah Parkin

Susannah Parkin received her B.A. in Psychology at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. She worked as the Program Coordinator at the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Idaho State University. Her research interests include depression etiology and treatment and psychotherapy process and outcome. 

Katharine Coldiron

Katharine Coldiron's work has appeared in Ms., the Guardian, VIDA, the Rumpus, LARB, and elsewhere. She lives in California and at kcoldiron.com, and tweets @ferrifrigida. 

Yael Ecker

Yael Ecker is a researcher in the Social Cognition Centre at the university of Cologne, Germany. She has completed her M.A. at Tel-Aviv University, and her PhD at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her current work focuses on understanding the processes that serve and promote goal-directed maintenance.

Clara Kühner

Dr. Clara Kühner studied psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (B. Sc.) and the University of Bamberg (M. Sc.) from 2012 to 2019. In December 2022, she completed her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology at Leipzig University. At the same time, she worked as a consultant in a management consultancy with a focus on personnel selection and as a lecturer in business psychology at the FOM Hochschule für Ökonomie und Management. Since 2021, she has been giving lectures and workshops on topics related to climate psychology at various educational institutions. Between September 2022 and June 2023 she worked as Evaluation Coordinator at the Munich Science Communication Lab at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and since July 2023 she has been working as a post-doc at the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Leipzig with a focus on environmental sustainability at work, occupational health and recovery.