Gregory R. Maio, Ph.D., became interested in social psychology, and values-attitude-behavior processes in particular, as an undergraduate student at York University (Canada), graduating in 1991. He went on to complete a Masters thesis and a PhD dissertation on value-attitude-behaviour processes under the guidance of Prof. James M. Olson at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), where his dissertation, Values as Truisms, received a Governor-General Gold Medal and an American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award. In 1997, he joined Cardiff University, Wales, where he received the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal (2002) for his early career research and was granted a Personal Chair (i.e., Professorship) in Psychology (2004). He moved to the University of Bath in 2016, where he is currently Head of the Department of Psychology.

Dr. Hugh Garavan is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont. He received his PhD in cognitive Psychology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University and the Medical College of Wisconsin. His research uses structural and functional neuroimaging to study cognitive control and reward processes with a particular interest in how functional changes in these systems may contribute to addiction. In addition to studying current abusers of numerous drugs, he has researched the importance of cognitive control systems for successful drug abstinence. His primary research focus of the last few years has been risk factors for drug use during adolescence and he is a co-investigator on the IMAGEN project, a longitudinal neuroimaging-genetic study of over 2,000 teens. Dr. Garavan is a member of several professional societies, has served as secretary for the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, has been a reviewer for the NIH, several European grant-giving agencies, and over 50 journals. He has published almost 200 papers in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and addiction.

Russ Poldrack

Stanford University

Professor of Psychology and director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience. His research uses brain imaging to understand how we learn and make decisions and how we exert self-control. Some projects he developed are Cognitive Atlas and OpenfMRI.

Leah Krubitzer

University of California, Davis

American neuroscientist, Professor of Psychology and head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Neurobiology. Her research interests center on how complex brains in mammals (e.g., humans) evolve from simpler forms.