Magazine Team | The In-Mind Magazine- Psychology for You!

Jana Dreston

Jana Dreston is Editor-in-Chief of the English version of In-Mind magazine. She studied at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Cologne. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research focuses on psychological processes of education in social media and political communication. She is also interested in memory, learning, science communication and media psychology. Find her here.
jana.dreston@uni-due.de

Stella Wernicke

Stella is Editor-in-Chief of the English version of In-Mind magazine. Her research at the University of Cambridge investigates how humans memorize what they see in their environment and how this changes with age. Stella previously studied Psychology at Heidelberg University and the University of Cambridge and conducted research at the Technical University of Munich and Bangor University. Find her here. saiw2@cam.ac.uk

Rinat Meerson

Rinat is Editor for Media Psychology and Head of Social Media at the English version of In-Mind magazine. With a background in psychology from the University of Würzburg, she is currently pursuing her PhD and working as a predoctoral researcher in the Advertising and Media Psychology Research Group at the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on digital hate, especially on how bystanders perceive and respond to various forms of hate on social media. She also has a keen interest in social psychology, intersectionality, counterspeech, and content moderation. Find her here.
rinat.meerson@univie.ac.at

Charikleia Lampraki

Charikleia is Editor for Developmental Psychology (Adulthood & Aging) and Head of Blog at the English version of In-Mind. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva, specializing in lifespan developmental psychology, and specifically in (older) adulthood. She is also the scientific officer of the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES. Her work focuses on the psychological processes that underlie resilience, adaptation, and identity development in the context of major life transitions, including bereavement, family reconfiguration, and aging-related sensory decline. She is particularly interested in loneliness, social connectedness, and their cognitive and emotional consequences, with a growing emphasis on the role of digital environments and identity tensions. Her research is methodologically grounded in longitudinal modeling, multilevel analysis, and large-scale secondary data, particularly from international datasets such as SHARE.

Elena Benini

Elena Benini is Head of Editorial Management at the English version of In-Mind. She is a postdoctoral researcher in Cognitive and Experimental Psychology at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), where she obtained her PhD in May 2024. Her research interests span from cognitive control in multitasking settings, to associative processes such as feature binding and episodic retrieval and to bilingualism and language control processes. Find her here. elena.benini[at]psych[dot]rwth-aachen.de

Sameeksha Shukla

Sameeksha Shukla is Editor for Cultural Psychology at the English version of In-Mind magazine. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology from the University of Delhi, India. Her research interests include social psychology, cultural psychology, and environmental psychology, with her doctoral research primarily focusing on the relationship between music and emotions. Additionally, she has a keen interest in cultural memory and research methods.
sshukla@psychology.du.ac.in

Lukas Repnik

Lukas Repnik is Editor for Developmental Psychology (Childhood & Adolescence) at the English version of In-Mind magazine. He completed his psychology studies in Vienna and is currently pursuing his PhD at the Medical University of Graz. Working at the intersection of developmental psychology and neuroscience, his research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying psychological resilience. He also conducted research at the SCAN-Unit (University of Vienna), the University of Zurich, and the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (Radboud University, The Netherlands). Besides his PhD, he is currently completing his training as a systemic family therapist.<br />lukas.repnik@medunigraz.at

Matilde Tassinari

Matilde is Editor for Human-Computer Interaction at the English version of In-Mind magazine. She is a postdoctoral researcher in Social Psychology at the University of Helsinki. Her work examines intergroup contact, collective action, and social inequality through a social identity lens. She specializes in applying new technologies such as immersive media and artificial intelligence to advance experimental research on intergroup relations.

Nathalie Claus

Nathalie is Editor for Clinical Psychology at the English version of In-Mind magazine. She works as a postdoctoral researcher and psychotherapist at University of Bremen, Germany. In 2024, she obtained her PhD at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, with a focus on understanding the associations between perfectionism and mental illness. In her research, she pursues the goal of identifying so-called transdiagnostic processes which play a role in development and maintenance of several disorders (e.g., perfectionism, emotion regulation, loneliness), thus posing worthwhile targets for intervention. She has also worked on treatment personalisation at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. During her PhD, she acquired her license as a psychotherapist in cognitive-behavioural therapy.

Lorenz Grolig

Lorenz is Editor for Clinical Psychology at the English version of In-Mind magazine. He works as a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg and as a licensed psychotherapist in Berlin, Germany. As a researcher, he is particularly interested in insomnia treatments, online interventions, prevention, and ethics in clinical studies. He holds degrees in Psychology and Comparative Literature. Find him here.

Maike Ramrath

Maike Ramrath is part of In-Mind magazine's Social Media Team. She holds a Master of Science in Applied Cognitive and Media Science from the University of Duisburg-Essen and is currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology at the University of Wuppertal. Her research interests include human-technology-interaction and organizational psychology, with her doctoral research primarily focusing on critical system information in high-risk-work-environments. Additionally, she is an active member of the User Research working group of the German UPA. ramrath[at]uni-wuppertal.de

Emmylou Sophie Schädler

Emmylou Sophie Schädler is part of the Social Media team at In-Mind and a master's student in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Mannheim. Her research interests center on social cognition and emotion, especially in the context of stress regulation and prosocial behavior. Emmy also leads educational workshops for high-school students and is passionate about making psychological insights accessible to a broader audience, bridging academic research and real-world application. She also authored articles for In-Mind.

Firuze E. Mullaoğlu

Firuze E. Mullaoğlu is part of In-Mind magazine's Social Media Team. She is a PhD researcher in social psychology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where she studies intergroup relations and collective action. Firuze completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and her master’s degree in cognitive science at Ruhr University Bochum. Her research areas focuses on multiple social identities and its effect on prejudice, allyship and intergroup relations using quantitative and experimental methodologies.

Clara Strathmann

Clara is a member of In-Mind's Social Media team. She studied Applied Cognition and Media Science in her bachelor's and master's at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD at the Chair of Social Psychology in Duisburg, where she researches how vulnerable groups like children or people with cognitive disabilities understand privacy online and how this understanding can be enhanced. She is also interested in media psychology and human-computer interaction, including how humans communicate and form relationships with artificial entities such as voice assistants.

Carolina Bremer

Carolina is a member of the Social Media Team at the English version of In-Mind magazine. She is pursuing a Dual Degree between Sciences Po and Columbia University, having studied Political and Social Sciences at Sciences Po and currently completing a Bachelor in Psychology at Columbia. Her academic interests lie in social and organizational psychology, with a focus on how psychological insights can be applied to foster positive and sustainable societal change. Passionate about nonfiction writing, she enjoys merging creativity, communication, and psychology to make scientific research more engaging and accessible to a wider audience.

Maren Giersiepen

Maren is an Editorial Assistant at the English version of In-Mind. She is a doctoral student in Neurocognitive Psychology at the LMU in Munich (Germany). She uses neuroimaging and behavioral methods to study the affective grounding of the sense of agency.

Zoey Chapman

Zoey is an Editorial Assistant at the English version of In-Mind. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Mental Health at McGill University. Her research explores the risk of suicide among youth who experienced physical health problems in childhood. She also has broader interests in mood disorders, mental health policy, and dementia.