Mareike Ehlert
Mareike Ehlert
Mareike Ehlert studied English, History, and Education at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and Maynooth University in Ireland. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher and senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychology in Education at the University of Münster. Her research focuses on how children learn to read and how scientific findings on reading can be implemented into school practice.
Ryan Elder
Ryan Elder
Ryan S. Elder is an assistant professor of Marketing at the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in 2011 from the University of Michigan. His research explores the interplay between sensory perception and cognition within an advertising context, with a particular focus on imagery.
Özen Odağ
Özen Odağ
Prof. Dr. Özen Odağ is a Professor of Psychology at Touro University Berlin and a media and cultural psychologist by training. Her research focuses on the empowering sides of the internet, aiming to find out how disadvantaged groups use the media to shape their identities and communities and strengthen their own voice. She has studied the role of social media in the context of collective action and political participation and looked at this from a cross-cultural perspective. As an expert in psychological research methods, she is particularly well-known for her focus on mixed-methods research. With project RESPOND! she is delving into the darker side of the internet, aiming to develop media competence trainings to combat discrimination and exclusion on social media.
Frank Bosco
Frank Bosco
Dr. Frank Bosco is a member of the Department of Management at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research spans the areas of human resource management, organizational behavior, and organizational research methods. Dr. Bosco is especially interested in employee staffing (e.g., employee selection), cognitive ability testing, meta-analysis, big data, open science, and approaches for summarizing entire scientific literatures. His research appears in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, and Personnel Psychology. Dr. Bosco is co-Founder of metaBUS.org, a winner of the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities's Digging into Data Challenge and currently funded by the National Science Foundation, SHRM Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership. When launched, the project will enable researchers and practitioners to make sense of more than 1,000,000 research findings by navigating an easy-to-understand "map" of constructs that conducts instant meta-analyses on virtually any topic in the scientific space.
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets is an associate professor at Maastricht University. His primary research interest concerns the “Neurobiology of Learning and Memory”, with a specific emphasis on the modulating role of stress and stress hormones (e.g., cortisol) on memory performance. Currently, he is running several research projects that aim to better understand why some people, when stressed, revert to their old, maladaptive habits (e.g., bingeing, smoking, drinking) by unravelling the underlying brain mechanisms.
Nadira Faber
Nadira Faber
Dr. Nadira Faber is an experimental social psychologist and a Junior Principal Investigator at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. She also is a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Nadira does interdisciplinary research with colleagues from psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience focussing on cooperative behaviour, specifically on dynamics within groups and on helping behaviour.
Marko Jelícic
Marko Jelícic
Marko Jelícic is professor of neuropsychology and law at Maastricht University. Apart from cognitive biases, his main research interests are in the field of crime-related amnesia, feigning of cognitive and psychiatric disorders, and memory distortions. He regularly acts as an expert witness in Dutch court cases that require expert opinions on neuropsychological issues, memory distortions, confessions, and the validity of symptoms reported by defendants.
Julia C. Becker
Julia C. Becker
Julia C. Becker obtained her PhD from Philipps University, Marburg in Germany and has been Professor of Social Psychology at Osnabrueck University since 2013. Her main research interests focus on ways to explain why disadvantaged group members tolerate societal systems that produce social and economic inequality and how legitimizing ideologies help to maintain unequal status relations. Building on this, she is interested in people’s motivation to engage in activism for social change.
Fabian Hutmacher
Fabian Hutmacher
Fabian Hutmacher is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg, Germany. His academic background is in Psychology (B.Sc., M.Sc.) as well as Philosophy and German Literature (B.A.). In his research, he focusses on individual and collective processes of remembering and identity construction (in the digital age) as well as motivated reasoning and motivated science reception. He also holds a strong interest in the theory and history of psychology.
Anna Sagana
Anna Sagana
Anna Sagana completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at University of Athens and received her MSc. in Psychology and Law from Maastricht University. Currently she is working towards a Ph.D. at Maastricht University. Specifically, she examines the effect of choice blindness in relation to eyewitness decision making processes. Her main research interests are eyewitness memory, eyewitness identification, and decision making.