Magazine staff

Julian Henz

Julian Henz is a research assistant at the Institute of Exercise Training and Sports Informatics of the German Sport University Cologne. He started his sports sciences studies in 2013, and took up his mathematical studies in 2015. In 2021, he graduated in both and is currently investigating fundamental aspects of route setting in indoor bouldering as part of his doctorate. In addition to his research activities, he works as a professional route setter and is the operations manager of Get High Routesetting GmbH.

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.

Johanna Kranz

Dr. Johanna Kranz is a post-doc for climate communication and climate education at the Rhineland-Palatinate Competence Center for Climate Change Impacts. She studied biology, German and German as a foreign language at the University of Trier and completed her doctorate in biology didactics at the University of Vienna. As a lecturer, her educational programs in the field of environment and climate have received awards, including the “Education for Sustainable Development Award” from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Change and Climate Policy. Her research focuses on action-oriented climate communication, climate education and social change.

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.

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.

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.

Andreas Baranowski

Dr. Andreas Baranowski studied psychology at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and the Universidad de Salamanca. He earned his Ph.D. at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Since 2016, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience at the Justus-Liebig-Universität (JLU) Giessen. His research focus includes sexual psychology, courtship behavior, and media effects research.