Amélie Petitclerc

Amélie Petitclerc is an Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University. She was previously a postdoctoral research scholar at the National Center for Children and Families (NCCF), Teachers College, Columbia University. She received support from a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She completed a MA in forensic psychology at the University of British Columbia and a PhD in clinical psychology at l'Université Laval, in Quebec City.

Lis Nielsen

Lis Nielsen manages a portfolio of research in Psychological Development and Integrative Science in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging, encompassing multidisciplinary research on the biological, social, and psychological determinants of well-being and health across the lifespan.

Helen Neville

Dr. Helen Neville is currently The Robert and Beverly Lewis Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director of the Brain Development Lab, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oregon in Eugene. She has published in many books and journals including Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex and Brain Research.

Yusuke Narita

Yusuke Narita is a Ph.D. stu­dent in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His cur­rent research inter­est cen­ters around mar­ket design and eco­nom­ics of edu­ca­tion. He has been work­ing on empirical/experimental/theoretical projects on the design of pub­lic school choice sys­tems, espe­cially how it inter­acts with long-term edu­ca­tion pro­duc­tion and school qual­ity. He is cur­rently a mem­ber of an SEII project on the effects of a reform in the selec­tive pub­lic high school choice sys­tem in Chicago.

Dan Mroczek

Dan Mroczek holds a shared appointment between the School of Medicine and the Psychology Department at Northwestern University since 2013. Previously, he did a postdoc at the University of Michigan from 1992 to 1995. He was then on faculty in the psychology department at Fordham University in New York City from 1995 to 2005. From 2005 to 2013, he was on faculty at Purdue University where he held the Berner Hanley Chair in Gerontology.

Terrie E. Moffitt

Terrie E. Moffitt studies how genetic and environmental risks work together to shape the developmental course of abnormal human behaviors and psychiatric disorders. Her particular interest is in antisocial and criminal behavior, but she also studies depression, psychosis, and substance abuse. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, who completed her clinical hospital training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She is associate director of the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, which follows 1000 people born in 1972 in New Zealand from birth to age 38 so far.

Edward Melhuish

Edward (Ted) Melhuish is Professor of Human Development at Birkbeck, University of London, and Research Professor at the University of Oxford, and is director of the Institute for the Study of Children, Families & Social Issues. He has undertaken research in 12 countries, including the Effective Pre-school, Primary & Secondary Education (EPPSE) and the National Evaluation of Sure Start (NESS) projects.

Dan McAdams

Dan P. McAdams is the Chair of the Psychology Department at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. He is also Professor of Psychology and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern, and he is the Director of the Foley Center for the Study of Lives, which is an interdisciplinary research group funded by the Foley Family Foundation and dedicated to studying personality development in adulthood.

Ifat Levy

Ifat Levy is an assistant professor of comparative medicine and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine. She was trained as a computational neuroscience, and as a graduate student she used functional MRI to study the visual cortex. During her postdoc training she turned to the field of decision-making, and has been studying the neural basis of decision-making ever since. Her lab's research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty. They study the effects of different types of uncertainty on valuation and choices and on their neural correlates.

Carl Lejuez

Dr. Carl Lejuez is the Director of Center for Addictions, Personality and Emotion Research at the University of Maryland. He joined the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Maryland in 2001 and was promoted to Professor in 2008. Dr. Lejuez's research is translational in nature, applying laboratory methods to understand real world clinical problems and then applying this knowledge to develop novel assessment and treatment strategies.

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