Guest speakers at previous editions of the Closer to Emotions Scientific Conference

prof. Romana Kadzikowska-Wrzosek

Uniwersytet SWPS Sopot

prof. Wojciech Cwalina

Uniwersytet im. Marii Skłodowskiej Curie

prof. Monika McNeill
Glasgow Caledonian University

prof. Elvis Mazzoni

University of Bologna

prof. Menachem Ben-Ezra

Ariel University, Israel

is a professor of psychology at Ariel University, currently holding the position as the head of school of social work. He received his PhD in psychology at Tel Aviv University in 2007. 
His research interests focused on psychological trauma, PTSD, human reactions to disasters, psychiatric epidemiology and history of psychiatry and PTSD prior to the 19th century. In addition, he has some works on stigma, attitudes towards role playing games like dungeons and dragons and internet addiction from a cross cultural perspective. He has over 120 publications.
He is a recurrent reviewer for the American Journal of Psychiatry and many other leading psychiatric journals. 
Outside the academia, he served as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on issues related to human reactions to disasters. 
He recently published an editorial at the American Journal of Psychiatry looking at social networks analysis following disasters.

prof. Igor V. Pantic

University of Belgrade, Serbia 

University of Haifa, Israel

is a Docent (As. Prof.) of medical physiology at the University of Belgrade, currently the Head of the Laboratory for cellular physiology.  He received his MD and PhD degrees from University of Belgrade in 2008 and 2013, respectively. His research interests include psychophysiology, behavioral physiology, nanomedicine, and cell biology. In 2015, he received the Award for the best young scientist at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of medicine. He has published more than 40 in extenso research articles in Science Citation Index (SCI, Thompson Reuters) journals. In the fields of psychophysiology and psychiatry, he has published articles in eminent journals such as European psychiatry, Computers in human behavior, Psychiatry research, and Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking . He has served as the reviewer for more than 40 international journals (more than 500 reviews) as well as the reviewer for grants sponsored by Polish, Slovak and Portuguese national science foundations / Ministries for science. He is currently the Head of the project within The Mediterranean Society for Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes and Hypertension in Pregnancy. 

prof. Gian Vittorio Caprara

Sapienza Università di Roma, 

PhD Felix Ehrlenspiel

Technische Universität München, Germany

prof. Jürgen Beckmann

Technische Universität München, Germany

PhD Katharina Strahler

Universität Potsdam, Germany

prof. Willy Lens

Catholic University of Leuven Belgium

prof. Caterina Lombardo

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

prof. Vilfredo De Pascalis

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

prof. Keith Oatley

University of Toronto, Canada

PhD Masato Sawada,

Faculty of Education, Utsunomiya University, Japan

prof. Gert Jan Hofstede

Wageningen Univeristy, Netherlands

PhD Peter Kuppens

Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

PhD Agnese Catanzani