Edward Maibach is a distinguished University Professor at George Mason University, and director of its Center for Climate Change Communication. Ed’s research – funded by the NSF, NASA and private foundations – focuses on public engagement in climate change.
Ed earned his MPH at San Diego State University, and his PhD in communication science at Stanford. He has previously served as Worldwide Director of Social Marketing at Porter Novelli, Associate Director of the National Cancer Institute, and Board Chair for Kidsave International.
Since 2012, I am an Associate Professor in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology at Université Blaise Pascal. I work on learning and reading disorders (e.g., developmental dyslexia), psycholinguistics and reading acquisition.
Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Physiology at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center. Founding Member and President of the Neural Correlate Society and Executive Producer of the annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Former Executive Board Member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Advisory Board Member and Columnist for Scientific American Mind.
Assistant professor at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. Fascinated by perception, attention, pupil size, and eye movements. I am also the main developer of OpenSesame, an open-source program for developing psychological and neuroscientific experiments.
Professor of Psychobiology in Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Professor of Psychology in Cardiological Physiopathology
Author of more than 150 papers on prestigious National and International Journals focusing mainly on anxiety and mood disorders, pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, sleep disturbances
Member of National and International Scientific Societies
Referee for more than 30 International Journals
The goal of my research is to understand what causes reading and language difficulties in children, how these difficulties can be identified and treated effectively, and how they relate to emotional health. I am a passionate advocate for the rapid translation of evidence-based knowledge into practice.
Over the last 25 years, I have held academic positions at the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Oxford University, and Macquarie University. I am currently the Translational Director of the Macquarie University Centre of Reading, the Founding Director of the Macquarie University Reading Clinic, and Project Manager of MOTIf (Macquarie Online Test Interface; www.motif.org.au).
Dr. Alberto Megías Robles is an Associate Professor at the Department of Basic Psychology of the University of Málaga. He received his PhD from the Experimental Psychology and Neurosciences program at the University of Granada. Dr. Megías-Robles' research career has mainly been developed in the Department of Basic Psychology at University of Malaga and in the Mind, Brain, and Behavioural Research Centre at University of Granada. Moreover, he has carried out research stays in other institutions such as the University College London, University of Helsinki, and University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Poland).
He has focused his research on the study of the interaction of emotion and cognition in decision-making processes from a psychology and cognitive neuroscience perspective. His research interests include emotion (particularly emotional abilities), risk and aggressive behaviour and traffic psychology.
Dan is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research investigates the neurobiology of language processing and language disorders using behavioural and eye-tracking experiments, neuroimaging, and computational modeling methods. His primary focus areas are the organisation of semantic knowledge and the functional neuroanatomy of spoken language.
Dr. Koji Miwa is Associate Professor at Nagoya University. He is a psycholinguist, who takes an experimental approach in linguistics to study how language is “done” in the mind. Dr. Miwa is primarily investigating (1) how complex words are represented/processed in the mind and (2) how bilinguals read in one language with two languages in the mind.
Professor of Clinical Neurosciences & Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy, Director of Innovation in Implementation and Clinical Translation (IIMPACT) Research Collaboration at the University of South Australia; Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Science; Hon Fellow, Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthetists; Fellow, Australian College of Physiotherapists & Honoured Member, Australian Physiotherapy Association; Principal Research Fellow, National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia.
An Associate Professor in Health Psychology registered with the HCPC, is the Director of Postgraduate Research Studies in the Faculty of Health & Applied Sciences at UWE (Bristol). Tim co-ordinates the Derriford Appearance Scales project, (www.derriford.info), providing measurement tools & consultancy in appearance/visible difference in the UK, Europe, & beyond. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy & Chartered Health Psychologist
Associate Professor in Applied Cognitive Science, Cognitive Modeling, and Human Factors. Studies Memory, Decision making, and knowledge representation. Developer of PEBL, the Psychology Experiment Building Language.