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Gert Martin Hald

Gert Martin Hald, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is Head of the Research Group for Sexuality and Interpersonal Relationships at this institution. His research interests include healthy sexual aging, divorce, anxiety and sexuality, and pornography. In 2016 he was awarded the Carlsberg Foundation 'Distinguished Associate Professor Fellowship' for the period 2016-2019.

Irene van Driel

Irene I. van Driel received her Bachelor Degree in Neuropsychology from the University of Amsterdam. She currently pursues a Master in Neuroscience at the Free University, also in Amsterdam. While she is basically interested in “any kind of brain related topics”, she primarily focuses on issues related to diseases, dysfunctions, and brain damage.

Henrik Gustafsson

Henrik Gustafsson is Professor in Sport Science at Karlstad University, Sweden and visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. His research is mainly focused on burnout in athletes and coaches and the application of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy based interventions in sport settings.

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.