Camilla P. Benbow is Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development, which she has led since 1998. 

A scholar of talent identification and development, Benbow is the author or co-author of more than 100 articles and 39 book chapters. She co-directs the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY), a longitudinal study of 5,000 gifted individuals in its 50th year.

SMPY has produced findings that have helped shape policy and practice in gifted education. Benbow is particularly interested in developing STEM talent, which was a focus of her service as a member of the National Science Board (2006-2012) and vice-chair of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2006-2008).

She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association. Dean Benbow also has been honored with the International Award for Research from the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (2019), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Intelligence Research (2018), and the David Imig Award of the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (2010).

Dean Benbow previously taught at Iowa State University and earned her doctorate in education from John Hopkins University.

Yulia Kovas is Professor of Genetics and Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London; visiting Professor at New York University in London, Global Education Oregon and other international Universities.

The goal of Yulia’s research is to provide insights into the development of individual differences in cognitive abilities, emotional and motivational processes and academic achievement - contributing to more personalised educational approaches and to better education for all learners.

She directs InLab; and leads research into mathematical development in the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS). She also directs PLIS - Prospective Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Study of families with children conceived naturally and by IVF; and other studies.

Yulia is Chair of Psychology Ethics Committee and Psychology Research Committee at Goldsmiths. She is co-founder of TAGC – the Accessible Genetics Consortium that aims to raise genetic literacy, promote beneficial use of genetic information and prevent risks brought by genetic advances. 

These themes are also explored in her recent book Oedipus Rex in the Genomic Era. Human Behaviour, Law and Society (Palgrave Macmillan). 

Constantine Sedikides’ research is on self and identity (including narcissism), and their interplay with emotion (especially nostalgia) as well as motivation, close relationships, and group or organizational processes.

This research has been supported by grants from many national and international funding agencies.

Constantine has received several awards, including Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize (Society for Personality and Social Psychology), Distinguished Lifetime Career Award (International Society for Self and Identity), and Kurt Lewin Medal for Outstanding Scientific Contribution (European Association of Social Psychology.

Before joining University of Southampton as Director of the Centre for Research on Self and Identity, Constantine taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He holds a PhD from Ohio State University, USA, and a Bachelor’s Degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Donald H. Saklofske, Ph.D., is currently an Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario.

He was previously Full Professor at the University of Western Ontario, University of Calgary, and University of Saskatchewan, and also Visiting Research Professor, Beijing Normal University.

His research and applied interests span individual differences including personality and intelligence, and psychological assessment. He has published 35 books and more than 300 journal articles and book chapters.

Don has been a member of ISSID since its creation and served on the ISSID Board of Directors and then as President. He was Editor of Personality and Individual Differences until 2021. 

He is currently editor of Canadian Psychology and Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment and Series Co-Editor for the Springer series on Human Exceptionality. He is an Fellow of APS, CPA and SPSP.

Elsbeth Stern studied Psychology in Marburg and Hamburg from 1977-1982. After completing her doctorate in Differential Psychology and Diagnostics at the University of Hamburg in 1986, Elsbeth worked at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich from 1987-1994.

She studied the development of mathematical reasoning by considering the impact of intelligence and learning opportunities. From 1995-2005, when working as professor of Psychology at the University of Leipzig and at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, she extended this line of research to scientific reasoning.

In 2006, Elsbeth accepted a professorship for Learning and Instruction at ETH Zürich, where she is heading the STEM-teacher education program. She has continued her work on the interaction between STEM learning, intelligence and instruction from elementary school to early adulthood.

She has published several books and more than 150 articles, many of them in various high-ranking international scientific journals. She has been on the editorial board of a number of journals, including SCIENCE. In addition to her scientific research, she is known to a broader public for her contributions to intelligence and learning in newspapers and talks.

In 2018 she was awarded the Franz Weinert Prize by the German Society for Psychology for these activities.

Daniel N. Jones is currently an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Nevada Reno (UNR) and a core faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Program.

Prior to UNR, Dr. Jones was an Assistant Professor of Legal Psychology at the University of Texas, El Paso. He received his BS in psychology from Stockton University and his Ph.D. in Social / Personality Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 2011.

He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, many in flagship journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.

He received the Early Career Award from the Western Psychological Association and has received several grants for research on dark personalities as they pertain to topics such as secrecy and cyber-security.

His research focuses on models of long vs. short-term deception and harm. Most especially, this research focuses on the differentiation of the Dark Triad of personality (Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism). He is currently examining the potential utility of the Dark Triad in different contexts and is developing interventions that are designed to prevent the harm they cause.

Giulio Costantini is assistant Professor of Psychometrics at the Psychology Department of the University of Milan-Bicocca.

His research interests span the fields of personality psychology, psychological methods, and network analysis. His research focuses mainly on developing network analysis as a statistical and theoretical tool to model personality, with a specific focus on personality and its motivational systems.

Additionally, he has been applying the network methodology to understand the structure and processes specific traits, namely conscientiousness and, more recently, thanks to a grant awarded by the Wake Forest University and the John Templeton Foundation (#61842), trait honesty.

He is also interested in the psychometric measurement of personality, using both questionnaires and implicit measures. Other research interests include the relationships between personality, behavior, and psychological situations; creative problem solving; statistical power and scientific reproducibility.

Dr Georg Krammer is University College Professor for Educational Measurement and Applied Psychometrics at the University College of Teacher Education Styria

Dr. Krammer identifies as a research methodologist and educational scientist (trained psychologist). He is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Bildungsforschung. Due to his focus on methods, he has a breadth and depth in his fields of research: from applicant faking to classroom leadership, from arithmetic performance to neuromyths, from simulation studies to purely theoretical papers.

At the end of the day, Georg Krammer wants to apply stats and methods to further our understanding of substantive (educational) issues.

Dr Andrew M. Johnson is the Associate Dean (Undergraduate Programs) in the Faculty of Health Sciences
in the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Johnson’s current research interests primarily relate to psychosocial features of concussion and Parkinson’s disease.  He has taught statistics and research methodology at the graduate and undergraduate level for more than 20 years. 

This teaching focus has led him to be involved in a wide variety of research projects over the years, which has afforded him with opportunities to acquire experience in an array of qualitative and quantitative analytic techniques.