After having worked at a child guidance clinic for some years, Christoph Steinebach became head of a center for early education. In 1995 he became professor of special education at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg (Germany), serving for some years as head of institute of research and development and president. Starting in 2007 he became professor at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, dean of the School of Applied Psychology, director of the Institute of Applied Psychology, Zurich (Switzerland), and in 2013 adjunct professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto (CA).
Christoph Steinebach is member of different national and international associations, currently president of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA) and member of the Executive Council of SPS Swiss Psychological Society.
Christoph Steinebach is a developmental psychologist. His research interests relate to resilience across the lifespan, health promotion in youth, and competence development in psychological training and counseling. Recent research projects include mindfulness and peer support across the lifespan and team development.
Professor Eef Hogervorst has a Chair in Biological Psychology and acts as Director for Dementia Research at Loughborough, consistently in the top 10 of University league tables in the UK. She also has visiting posts at the University of Leicester and Nottingham and frequently collaborates with her former colleagues at Oxford and Cambridge University in the UK. In Indonesia she also holds visiting Professorial posts (UI, URINDO, URIYO) and has collaborated there on research and educational projects since 2006. She wrote over 200 international peer reviewed publications with her collaborators on dementia diagnostics and risk/protective factors for dementia, which have been cited over 9000 times in the literature. Eef often is invited to give keynotes worldwide at dementia conferences. With collaborators she obtained over £10M funding for her research.
Roman Cieslak is Professor of Psychology at SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland, and affiliated senior research scholar at Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO, USA. Roman is Rector of the SWPS University, founder of the Stress Research Center, and founding member of the European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment (EACLIPT).
His research interests refer to designing and evaluating e-Health interventions focusing on coping with depression, traumatic stress, occupational stress, and job burnout.
Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D., is Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Institutional Research and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological Science, the Department of Medicine, and the Program in Public Health at the University of California, Irvine, where she has been actively involved in research, teaching, and administration since 1989. An international expert in the field of stress and coping, Silver has spent over four decades studying acute and long-term psychological and physical reactions to stressful life experiences, including personal traumas such as loss, physical disability, and childhood sexual victimization, as well as larger collective events such as terror attacks, infectious disease outbreaks, and natural disasters across the world (e.g., U.S., Indonesia, Chile, Israel). Her research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Public Health Service. She has guided governments in the U.S. and abroad in the aftermath of terrorist attacks and earthquakes and served on numerous senior advisory committees and task forces for the Department of Homeland Security, providing advice to the Department and its component agencies on the psychological impact of disasters and terrorism. She has also testified at the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Space and Technology on two occasions and given several briefings to policymakers at the White House and on Capitol Hill on the role of social and behavioral science research in disaster preparedness and response and the impact of the media following disasters.
Rusi Jaspal is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Exchange) and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Brightonin the United Kingdom. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, the University of Surrey and Royal Holloway, University of London. Rusi Jaspal has held professorships at De Montfort University Leicester, Nottingham Trent University and ÅboAkademiin Finland.He has writtenover 200books, articles,book chaptersand reports, mainly in the area of identity processes and psychological wellbeing.
