TEAM
FOUNDERS
Liviu POENARU
PhD
(Switzerland)
Liviu Poenaru is a Doctor of Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology and a psychotherapist in Geneva. He is the founder of the scientific journal In Analysis (Elsevier) and the Editor-in-Chief and designer of the E.U.LABORATORY platform. His current research focuses on the concept of the economic unconscious, exploring how hidden economic codes shape mental health, social behavior, and collective well-being.
​Stefania UBALDI
MD, PhD (Switzerland)
Stefania Ubaldi is a Swiss-Italian physician specialized in Internal Medicine (University of Naples Federico II), with a PhD in Clinical Pathophysiology and Experimental Medicine.
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​Murielle EL HAJJ
PhD
(Qatar)
Murielle El Hajj is a Doctor of French Literature and Language. She obtained her doctorate from the Lebanese University of Beirut. She teaches at Lusail University, Qatar.
Kostadin KUSHLEV
PhD
(U.S.A)
Dr. Kushlev is a faculty mentor for the predoctoral/postdoctoral training and mentored career development programs at Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS)/NIH.
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Didier COURBET
PhD
(France)
Didier Courbet is a Professor of Communication Sciences at Aix-Marseille University in France and Deputy Director of the Research Institute in Information and Communication Sciences (IRSIC). His expertise lies, first, in public interest communication (public health, environment) and, second, in the reception and psychosocial influence of media (political messages, the social power of television, advertising, the web, persuasive serious games). He teaches in the Faculties of Medicine (health communication), Psychology, and Communication in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, and serves as an expert for the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM).
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Marte OTTEN
PhD
(Netherlands)
Marte Otten holds a BA and MA in Cognitive and Biological Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Amsterdam. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University in Mahzarin Banaji’s Social Cognition Lab, where she studied how unconscious stereotypes affect attention, memory, and language perception, she returned to Amsterdam to research the psychology of humiliation. She is now a researcher at the University of Sussex’s Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, working with Anil Seth on how social predictions and prejudice shape cognitive and perceptual processes.
Meredith L. PRUDEN
PhD
(U.S.A)
Meredith L. Pruden is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media at Kennesaw State University (U.S.) and Fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. Her interdisciplinary research explores far-right media ecosystems, mis/disinformation, and the sociotechnical dynamics of harmful online content through a feminist and intersectional lens.