Board Members' Bio-Sketch
convenor
Panayiota Dimitropoulou
Country: Greece
Home institution: Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus
Position: Assistant professor
Email: pdimitro@uoi.gr, p.dimitropoulou@uoc.gr
Professional interest: mental health promotion, evidence-based intervention programs in the school community, learning, students with emotional and behavioral difficulties, motivation and emotions in school class, cyberbullying, provision of e-mental health services.
Link to personal profile page: http://www.psychology.uoc.gr/personal/dep/members-dep.html
DEPUTY Convenor
Margarida Gasparde Matos
Country: Portugal
Home institution: FMH/ University of Lisbon and ISAMB/ University of Lisbon
Position: Full Professor; Coordinator of the Centre for Health Education and Promotion (FMH) and Supportive Environments Research Group ( ISAMB)
Email: margaridagaspar@netcabo.pt
Personal interest: Her areas of scientific interest are children and adolescents health promotion: individual and contextual resources. This include several health related outcomes such as leisure, substance use, sexual behavior, violence, nutrition, physical activity, mental health and well-being, quality of life perception, but also individual resources such as social competences, resilience, self –regulation, entrepeneurship, social engagement, and also contextual factors such as family, school, neighbourhood social nets and, physical environment and social cohesion. All this with a focus on young people health. Much of her work is devoted to research and attempts to influence public policies in the referred areas.
MEMBERS
Damir Lucanin
Country: Croatia
Guna Svence
Country: Latvia
Home institution: RĪGA TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MANAGEMENT ACADEMY, DEPARTAMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
Position: PROFESSOR, RESEARCHER IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, professions (diplomas)- teacher, trainer for socialpsychological groups, psychologist – acmeologist (work with adults)
E-mail: gunasvence@rpiva.lv
Professional interest: music, biodanza, travel, philosophy and religion, positive psychology and positive interevntions
Link to personal profile page: http://www.emci.fham.de/fileadmin/user_upload/fham_erding/emci-fham/CV_06_Guna_Svence_RPIVA.pdf
Ivon Ames
Country: Germany
Home institution: University of Hagen
Email: ivon.ames@mindworkz.de
Personal interest: occupational health psychology, prevention of mental health in organizations
Solfrid Raknes
Country: Norway
Rifkat J. Muhamedrahimov
Country: Russian Federation
Home institutions: Saint-Petersburg State University Department of Psychology
Position: Head of Child and Parent Mental Health and Early Intervention Division
E-mail: rjm@list.ru
Professional interest: Mental health in infancy and early childhood, caregiver-child interaction and attachment, early intervention for children in families and institutions
Francisco Labrador Encinas
Country: Spain
Maria Nermark
Country: Sweden
Jennifer Inauen
Country: Switzerland
Home institution: University of Bern
Position: Assistant Professor
E-mail: jennifer.inauen@psy.unibe.ch
Professional interests: Health behavior change, digital health promotion and prevention, intensive-longitudinal methods, health psychology in the Global South
Link to personal profile page: http://www.gpv.psy.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/personen/jinauen/index_ger.html
Vitalii Klymchuk
Country: Ukraine
Alison Clarke
Country: United Kingdom
Eva Strukelj
Country:
Home institution: EFPSA - European Federation of Psychology Students' Associations
Victor J. Rubio
Home institution: DPT. BIOLOGICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY. FACULTY OF PSYCHOLOGY. UNIVERSITY AUTONOMA MADRID
Position: Associate Professor, Licensed Clin Psych
Email: victor.rubio@uam.es
Professional interest: Psychological Assessment, Health Psychology, Personality Psychology, Sport Psychology
Link to personal profile page: http://www.uam.es/personal_pdi/psicologia/victor/
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Eleni Karagianni
Liaison to the EFPA Board Scientific Affairs
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS
Angelos Kassianos
Country: Cyprus
Home institution: University College London (UCL), Department of Applied Health Research, London
Position: Research Associate
Email: ang.kassianos@gmail.com, angelos.kassianos@ucl.ac.uk
Professional interest: Cancer prevention and control, early diagnosis, mobile health (mHealth), electronic health (eHealth), health behaviour change, palliative care, population health promotion programmes, global health and quality of life
Link to personal profile page: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=AKASS5
Roman Gabrhelík
Country: Czech Republic
Home institution: Department of Addictology, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague
Position: Head of the Prevention Centre, Interim head of the Treatment Centre, Researcher/lecturer/instructor, General Teaching Hospital in Prague
Position: Principal Investigator
Email: gabrhelik@adiktologie.cz
Professional interest: Prevention of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; Clinical research in substance abuse; pharmacotherapy; high technology in research (EMA) and treatment (EMI); injection drug use and injection drug users; qualitative methods; psychosocial treatment interventions (including self-help issues).
Link to personal profile page: http://www.adiktologie.cz/en/users/detail/4/Roman-Gabrhelik
Niels Peter Rygaard
Country: Denamrk
Home institution: The Fairstart Foundation, www.fairstartfoundation.com
Email: info@fairstartfoundation.com
Personal interests: Applying psychology knowledge in large scale interventions. Our foundation unite international researchers in children in alternative care, and transform our care recommendations into local capacity building. We have educated 600 NGO and government partner staff in 26 countries, in how to train local groups of foster parents and orphanage and refugee staff in attachment based care, covering 40.000 children. Educations take place in six-month online classrooms, and include practical group training.
My overall interest is analysing how global migration and urbanisation affect traditional family care cultures, and stress parents and children – in 2021 one paper will be published (Tony was a helpful editor) for the European Psychologist analysing the EU situation. After receiving the APA 2020 Award for International Humanitarian Work for Underserved Populations, an invited paper will be published in the American Psychologist Special Award Issue Dec 2020. As a member of our group, the Eurochild Task Force Group for Children in Alternative Care, The Psychology Coalition of NGOs Accredited to United Nations, World Association of Infant Mental Health and many others, I can contribute to our group with a vast network.”
Sigrun Danielsdottir
Country: Lithuania
Jennifer Klop-Richards
Country: The Netherlands
Home institution: Department of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE) University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
Position: Postdoctoral researcher
Email: j.s.klop-richards@umcg.nl
Kari Frank
Country: Norway
Vita Postuvan
Country: Slovenia
Home institution: Slovene Centre for Suicide Research, Andrej Marušič Institute & FAMNIT, Department of Psycholog, University of Primorska, Slovene Centre for Suicide Research
Position: Deputy Head & Lecturer
Email: vita.postuvan@upr.si
Professional interest: research and prevention of suicidal behaviour and promotion of mental health through implementation of large-scale public-health projects as well as through clinical and therapeutic work with individuals and small groups (CBT, mindfulness)
Link: http://www.lifeplatform.net/cv/vita-postuvan/
EC LIAISON
- Tor Levin Hofgaard
Country: Norway