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Department staff

Meet our academic, research and professional services staff

Our department is made up of world-leaders in psychological and behavioral science, supported by passionate professional services staff.

Professor Liam Delaney, Head of Department

The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science is a dynamic and thriving community of faculty, visiting academics, specialists and PhD, MSc and BSc students conducting cutting-edge research on the human mind and behaviour in a societal context. A team of professional services staff support and promote the work of the department.

If you are a prospective applicant or student please contact LSE Undergraduate Admissions and Graduate Admissions for any queries relating to the application process.

Please also visit our undergraduate, postgraduate, executive and PhD FAQ pages where we answer more specific questions about programme structure and content.

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Professor Liam Delaney
Head of Department, Professor in Behavioural Science, Programme Co-Director MSc Behavioural Science
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Professor Alex Gillespie
Professor in Psychological and Behavioural Science, Deputy Head of Department (Research), Programme Co-Director MSc Social and Cultural Psychology
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Champa Heidbrink
Department Manager
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Dr Miriam Tresh
Assistant Professorial Lecturer, Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning), Departmental Tutor for the BSc Psychological and Behavioural Science programme
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Faculty

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Dr Deema Awad
Assistant Professor
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Dr Frederic Basso
Associate Professor in Social Psychology/Economic Psychology, Programme Co-Director MSc Psychology of Economic Life
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Professor Martin W. Bauer
Professor of Social Psychology, Programme Director MSc Social and Public Communication
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Dr Thomas Curran
Associate Professor in Social Psychology, Programme Director BSc Psychological and Behavioural Science
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Professor Liam Delaney
Head of Department, Professor in Behavioural Science, Programme Co-Director MSc Behavioural Science
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Professor Paul Dolan
Professor in Behavioural Science, Programme Co-Director Executive MSc Behavioural Science 
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Professor Bradley Franks (currently on sabbatical)
Professorial Lecturer 
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Dr Matteo M. Galizzi
Associate Professor in Behavioural Science, Programme Co-Director Executive MSc Behavioural Science
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Dr Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo
Associate Professor in Organisational and Social Psychology, Programme Co-Director MSc Organisational and Social Psychology
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Dr Sakshi Ghai
Assistant Professor in Psychological and Behavioural Science
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Professor Alex Gillespie
Professor in Psychological and Behavioural Science, Programme Co-Director MSc Social and Cultural Psychology
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Professor Jeremy Ginges
Professor in Behavioural Science
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Dr Laura M. Giurge
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science
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Dr Ilka Gleibs (currently on sabbatical) 
Associate Professor in Social and Organisational Psychology, Programme Co-Director MSc Organisational and Social Psychology

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Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch 
Professor in Social Psychology, Programme Co-Director MSc Social and Cultural Psychology
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Dr Christian Krekel
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science, Programme Co-Director MSc Behavioural Science
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Dr Dario Krpan
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science
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Dr Kate Laffan
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science
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Professor Saadi Lahlou
Professor in Social Psychology, Programme Co-Director MSc Psychology of Economic Life
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Dr Grace Lordan
Associate Professor in Behavioural Science, Founder of The Inclusion Initiative (TII)
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Dr Jens Madsen 
Assistant Professor in Psychology
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Dr Michael Muthukrishna
Associate Professor in Economic Psychology
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Dr Atrina Oraee
LSE Fellow
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Dr Tom Reader
Associate Professor in Organisational Psychology, Programme Co-Director MSc Organisational and Social Psychology 
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Dr Jet G. Sanders 
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science
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Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington 
Associate Professor in Social Psychology 
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Dr Ganga Shreedhar 
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science
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Professor Elizabeth Stokoe
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Dr Ben Tappin
Assistant Professor in Psychological and Behavioural Science
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Dr Miriam Tresh
Assistant Professorial Lecturer, Departmental Tutor for the BSc Psychological and Behavioural Science programme
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Dr Alina Velias
LSE Fellow
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Dr Edoardo Zulato
LSE Fellow
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Professional Services Staff (PSS)

 

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Anika Bloomfield
Programme Manager for BSc Psychologial and Behavioural Science
a.n.bloomfield@lse.ac.uk / pbs.bsc@lse.ac.uk
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Gosia Brown
Executive MSc Programme Manager
g.m.brown@lse.ac.uk / pbs.emsc@lse.ac.uk
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Ryan Edmonds
Departmental Senior Student Adviser 
r.edmonds1@lse.ac.uk / ssc.dssa@lse.ac.uk
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Karine Gay
MPhil/PhD Programme and Events Manager 
pbs.phd@lse.ac.uk / pbs.events@lse.ac.uk

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Carl Goodwin
Alumni, Student Experience and Internship Programme Officer 
c.goodwin@lse.ac.uk
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Champa Heidbrink
Department Manager
c.heidbrink@lse.ac.uk
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Therese Holmqvist
Communications Manager
t.holmqvist@lse.ac.uk / pbs.comms@lse.ac.uk
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Salv Ridino
Programme Administrator for BSc Psychologial and Behavioural Science
s.ridino@lse.ac.uk / pbs.bsc@lse.ac.uk
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Christopher Roberts
Programme Manager for MSc Social and Cultural Psychology, MSc Social and Public Communication and MSc Organisational and Social Psychology
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Sean Rooney
Scientific Officer and Head of Laboratory Innovation
S.Rooney@lse.ac.uk
Contact for issues relating to use of the Behavioural Lab and psychological equipment. 

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Will Stubbs
Programme Manager for MSc Behavioural Science and MSc Psychology of Economic Life
w.stubbs@lse.ac.uk / pbs.msc@lse.ac.uk
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Dimitris Thomopoulos
EDI Officer and Executive Officer to PBS Head of Department (Professor Liam Delaney)
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Research Staff

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Teresa Almeida
Research Officer (The Inclusion Initiative)
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Dr Bankole Falade
Research Officer
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Dr Daniel Jolles
Research Officer (The Inclusion Initiative)
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Devi Khanna
Research Officer (The Inclusion Initiative)
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Dr Ivan Kroupin
Research Officer / Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Kaveh Salehzadeh-Nobari
Postdoctoral Researcher (The Inclusion Initiative)
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Dr Anne Theunissen
Research Officer (The Inclusion Initiative)
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PhD Students

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Karin Ahlbäck
Supervisor: 
 Dr Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo
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Aishwarya Bellam
Supervisors: Dr Thomas Curran and Professor Bradley Franks
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Erika Brodnock
Supervisor: Dr Grace Lordan
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Ivan Cano-Gomez
Supervisors: Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington and Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch
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Jaesun Chae
Supervisors: Professor Martin Bauer and Dr Dario Krpan
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Hannah Chappell
Supervisors: Dr Matteo Galizzi and Dr Christian Krekel 
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Alexandra Chesterfield
Supervisors: Dr Tom Reader and Professor Alex Gillespie
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Adam Davidson
Supervisor: Dr Matteo Galizzi
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Ethan Dias
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Curran
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Katharina Heby
Supervisor: Dr Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo
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Juliet Hodges
Supervisor: Dr Matteo Galizzi
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Sharon Jackson
Supervisors: Professor Alex Gillespie and Dr Chandana Mathur

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Pinar Jenkins
Supervisors: Professor Liam Delaney
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Bessi Jonsdottir
Supervisor: Dr Michael Muthukrishna
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Alexandra Kirienko
Supervisor: Professor Liam Delaney and Dr Tom Reader
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Veronika Luptáková
Supervisors:  Dr Matteo Galizzi and Professor Alex Voorhoeve
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Nils Mallock
Supervisor: Dr Christian Krekel
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Nikita
Supervisors: Dr Grace Lordan and Dr Dario Krpan
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Alyssa Pandolfo
Supervisors: Dr Tom Reader and Professor Alex Gillespie
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Leah Jeongwon Park
Supervisors: Professor Saadi Lahlou and Professor Alex Gillespie
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Daniele Pollicino
Supervisor: Dr Ganga Shreedhar
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Pia Marie Pose
Supervisors: Dr Thomas Curran and Dr Michael Muthukrishna
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Sharon Raj
Supervisor: Professor Liam Delaney
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Eric Schnell
Supervisor: Dr Michael Muthukrishna
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Joseph Sherlock
Supervisors: Professor Liam Delaney and Professor Paul Dolan
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Haoran Shi
Supervisors: Dr Dario Krpan and Professor Liam Delaney
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Anisha Singh
Supervisor: Dr Laura M. Giurge and Dr Matteo M. Galizzi
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Andrew Stewart
Supervisors:  Dr Ilka Gleibs and Professor Bradley Franks
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Chen-Ta Sung
Supervisors: Dr Jens Madsen and Professor Bradley Franks
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Audrey Van Hoecke
Supervisors: Dr Jet Sanders and Dr Matteo M. Galizzi
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Heidi Zamzow
Supervisor: Dr Dario Krpan
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Katherine Ziegelbauer
Supervisors: Dr Lucia Garcia Lorenzo and Dr Ilka Gleibs
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Emeritus Professors and Honorary Fellows

 

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Professor Cathy Campbell
Emeritus Professor
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Professor George Gaskell
Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology and Research Methodology
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Professor Patrick Humphreys
Emeritus Professor
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Dr Janet Stockdale
LSE Honorary Fellow
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Visiting Fellows and Guest Teachers

The department is pleased to host long-term visitors from renowned external institutions, who are able to make an important academic contribution by drawing on their specific field of expertise. Learn more about becoming a Visiting Fellow in PBS

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Dr Kavita Abraham-Dowsing
Visiting Fellow
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Paul Adams
Visiting Senior Fellow
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Dr Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Sanchayan Banerjee
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Denise Baron
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Mikhail Burtsev
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Natalia Concha
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Fangming Cui
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Marta Entradas
Visiting Fellow
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Professor Natalie Gold
Visiting Senior Fellow
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Dr Benno Guenther
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Caroline Howarth
Visiting Senior Fellow
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Dr Edward Hughes
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Ishan Jalan
Visiting Professor for PB433 Theory and Practice of Organisational Development course  
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Dr Anni Kajanus
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Meena Kotecha
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Lucia Macchia
Visiting Fellow
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Professor Pavan Mamidi
Visiting Professor in Practice
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Dr Aleksandar Matic 
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Armando N. Meier
Visiting Senior Fellow
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Dr Georgios Melios
Guest Teacher
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Dr Stuart Mills
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Cahal Moran
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Liora Moskovitz
Visiting Senior Fellow and Guest Teacher
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Dr Cathy Nicholson
Visiting Senior Fellow
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Dr Sandra Obradović
Visiting Fellow and Guest Teacher
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Dr Celestin Okoroji
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Séamus Power
Visiting Senior Fellow
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Dr Rana Qarooni
Guest Teacher for PB201
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Dr Marcelo Ramella
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Jessica Rea
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Barry Rogers
Visiting Professor in Practice
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Dr Gordon Sammut
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Lucia Sell-Trujillo 
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Ben Shenoy
Visiting Professor in Practice
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Dr Umar Taj
Guest Teacher
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Dr Chris Tennant
Visiting Fellow 
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Professor Fabio Tufano
Visiting Professor 
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Professor Ben Voyer
Visiting Professor
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Dr Paulius Yamin-Slotkus
Visiting Fellow
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Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs)

 

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Aishwarya Bellam

Email: a.bellam@lse.ac.uk

  • PB130: Statistics and Research Methods for Psychological and Behavioural Science 
  • PB304: Organisational and Social Decision-Making
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Lazaros - Antonios Chatzilazarou  

Email: l.a.chatzilazarou@lse.ac.uk

  • PB4A7: Quantitative Applications for Behavioural Science
  • MSc Quantitative Methods & Project Officer
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Adam Davidson

Email: a.t.davidson@lse.ac.uk

  • PB100: Foundations of Behavioural Science
  • PB300: Advances in Psychological and Behavioural Science
  • PB314: Behavioural Science in an Age of New Technology
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Xiangyi Guo

Email: x.guo37@lse.ac.uk

  • Programme GTA for MSc Social and Cultural Psychology
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Therese Holmqvist

Email: t.holmqvist@lse.ac.uk

  • Programme GTA for MSc Behavioural Science
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Leah Park

Email: j.park34@lse.ac.uk

  • Programme GTA for MSc Psychology of Economic Life
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Isaac Parkes

Email: i.j.parkes@lse.ac.uk

  • Programme GTA for MSc Behavioural Science
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Daniele Pollicino

Email: d.pollicino@lse.ac.uk

  • PB307: Consumer Psychology for Sustainability
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Haoran Shi

Email: h.shi12@lse.ac.uk

  • PB204: Social Psychology: Individuals, Groups and Culture
  • PB413: Experimental Design and Methods for Behavioural Science
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Da’Quallon Smith

Email: d.smith5@lse.ac.uk

  • PB308: Social Psychology of Economic Life
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Chen-Ta Sung

Email: c.sung1@lse.ac.uk

  • PB201: Cognitive Psychology
  • PB202: Developmental Psychology
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Audrey Van Hoecke 

Email: a.l.van-hoecke@lse.ac.uk

  • PB205: Individual Differences and Why They Matter
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Sayeh Yousefi

Email: s.yousefi@lse.ac.uk

  • PB101: Foundations of Psychological Science
  • Programme GTA for MSc Social and Public Communication
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Katherine Ziegelbauer

Email: k.a.ziegelbauer@lse.ac.uk 

  • MSc Qualitative Methods & Project Officer

Department committees

Department Teaching Committee 

Dr Frederic Basso
Associate Professor in Social Psychology/Economic Psychology

Anika Bloomfield
Undergraduate Programme Manager

Dr Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo
Associate Professor in Organisational Social Psychology

Karine Gay
MPhil/PhD Programme and Events Manager

Champa Heidbrink
Department Manager 

Dr Christian Krekel
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science, Programme  Co-Director MSc Behavioural Science

Dr Dario Krpan
Assistant Professor

Dr Michael Muthukrishna
Associate Professor of Economic Psychology

Christopher Roberts
Programme Manager for MSc Social and Cultural Psychology, MSc Social and Public Communication and MSc Organisational and Social Psychology

Will Stubbs
Programme Manager for MSc Behavioural Science and MSc Psychology of Economic Life

Dimitris Thomopoulos (Secretary)
EDI Officer and Executive Officer to PBS Head of Department

Dr Miriam Tresh (Chair)
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning), Assistant Professorial Lecturer, Departmental Tutor

BSc Development Committee 

Dr Deema Awad
Assistant Professor

Dr Thomas Curran (Chair)
Associate Professor in Social Psychology, Programme Director BSc Psychological and Behavioural Science 

Champa Heidbrink
Department Manager 

Anika Bloomfield
Undergraduate Programme Manager

Dr Jens Madsen
Assistant Professor in Psychology 

Dr Michael Muthukrishna
Associate Professor in Economic Psychology

Salv Ridino (Secretary)
Undergraduate Programme Administrator 

Sean Rooney
Scientific Officer and Head of Laboratory Innovation 

Dr Jet G. Sanders
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science 

Dr Miriam Tresh
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning), Assistant Professorial Lecturer, Departmental Tutor

Research Committee 

Professor Martin W. Bauer
Professor in Social Psychology

Professor Liam Delaney 
Head of Department

Dr Matteo M. Galizzi
Associate Professor in Behavioural Science

Karine Gay (Secretary) 
MPhil/PhD Programme and Events Manager

Professor Alex Gillespie (Chair)
Professor in Psychological and Behavioural Science

Dr Laura M. Giurge
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science

Champa Heidbrink
Department Manager 

Therese Holmqvist
Communications Manager

Dr Jens Madsen
Assistant Professor in Psychology 

Sean Rooney
Scientific Officer and Head of Laboratory Innovation

PBS Ethics Committee

Dr Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo
Associate Professor in Organisational Social Psychology

Dr Matteo M. Galizzi
Associate Professor in Behavioural Science

Dr Jens Madsen
Assistant Professor in Psychology

Sean Rooney
Scientific Officer and Head of Laboratory Innovation

PBS Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee

Dr Deema Awad (Co-chair)
Assistant Professor in Psychological and Behavioural Science

Anika Bloomfield
Undergraduate Programme Manager

Carl Goodwin
Alumni, Student Experience and Internship Programme Officer 

Champa Heidbrink
Department Manager

Therese Holmqvist
Communications Manager

Dimitris Thomopoulos (Co-chair)
EDI Officer and Executive Officer to PBS Head of Department

Dr Miriam Tresh
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning), Assistant Professorial Lecturer, Departmental Tutor

PhD Committee

Professor Liam Delaney 
Professor in Behavioural Science, Head of Department

Karine Gay (Secretary)
MPhil/PhD Programme and Events Manager

Professor Jeremy Ginges
Professor in Behavioural Science

Professor Alex Gillespie 
Professor in Psychological and Behavioural Science

Champa Heidbrink
Department Manager

Dr Kate Laffan 
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science

Dr Michael Muthukrishna (Chair)
Associate Professor in Economic Psychology

Dimitris Thomopoulos
EDI Officer and Executive Officer to PBS Head of Department