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Guido M. van Koningsbruggen

Guido M. van Koningsbruggen is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Social Psychology at Utrecht University. His primary research interest concerns social cognition and (health) behavior change. His current work focuses on social cognitive determinants of successful self-regulation in the domain of eating and dieting behavior. This work involves both fundamental research on cognitive and motivational processes as well as applied studies on changing dieting behavior.

Laura Will

Dr Laura Will (nee Broeker) is a research associate at the Institute of Psychology at the German Sport University Cologne. In her PhD project, she investigated the influence of predictability on multitasking; her current research focuses on the individualized performance development of elite athletes (project in:prove) and aesthetic judgments in sport.

Nadia Ahmad

Nadia Ahmad received her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Kansas in 2005. She currently works at a private firm on media assessment of public opinion. Her research interests center around prosocial motivation, emotion, and behavior, and emotion and attitude formation and change.

Britta Krüger

Britta Krüger is a senior lecturer in the Human Movement Science and Sports Psychology Department at Justus Liebig University Giessen where she also completed her doctorate and postdoctoral habilitation in psychology. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Klaus Tschira Klar Text Prize for Science Communication. Her research focuses on aspects of action simulation. She is particularly interested in the neural processes underlying imagining and perceiving human movements.

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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.