Thursday, 23 February 2012
Antonella Delle Fave
MD specialised in Clinical Psychology is full professor of Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her research interests concern optimal experience, and her cross-cultural studies have produced the largest international data bank on this topic. She has supervised intervention projects in health and education and co-operation programs on disability and social maladjustment. She is currently President of the Intermational Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), former President of ENPP and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Happiness Studies.
Teresa Freire
Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology in the School of Psychology in the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal). She is the Director of the Service of Psychology of the School of Psychology in the University, and the coordinator of the Peer Tutoring Project of the University of Minho. She teaches in graduate and post-graduate levels in Psychology and coordinates research groups on positive psychology (with master and doctoral students), aimed to study the psycho-social-physiological processes related to optimal functioning. She leads the Portuguese Society of Positive Psychology (“Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia Positiva”).
Dora Gudmondsdottir
Dora Gudmondsdottir is a psychologist, who has served as the General Director of the Public Health Institute of Iceland. Prior to her work at the Institute Dora received her Cand. Psych-degree from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. In 2010 she moved from Iceland to Cambridge, UK, to work on her research on the impact of the economic crisis on well-being in Iceland. Dora is very interested in positive mental health, or mental well-being and finding effective ways for individuals, institutions and societies to flourish.
Jane Henry
Jane Henry is an applied psychologist based at the Open University in the UK and until recently head of the Human Resources and Change Management Centre. She chairs their Creativity, Innovation and Change Masters programme. She researches positive adult development in particular long-term wellbeing, strategies that assist adults in maintaining beneficial change and the role of personality and individual differences in mediating their effectiveness. She has extensive international training and consultancy experience in creativity and development. Her books include Creative Management and Development, Perception in Management and Research on Exceptional Experience.
Hans Henrik Knoop
Associate professor at the Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus, and president of ENPP and member of the IPPA Board of Directors. Hans Henrik is involved in research cooperation with colleagues at Stanford, Harvard and Claremont Graduate University e.g. the Good Work Project. His main research interests involve the application of positive psychology in the school system and in organizations; complexity theories and flow.
Charles Martin-Krumm
Vice President of the French and French Speaking Positive Psychology Association, member of the IPPA Board of Directors, associate professor at the IUFM of Rennes – University of Western Brittany (France). Research interests concern the links between optimism and cognitive, behavioral, and emotional variables such as performance, anxiety, well-being, hedonic adaptation, burnout, expectancies. Mediator and moderator effects are studied in the domain of education, sports and business.