EC bios

Evangelia Demerouti, President
 

Deirdre O'Shea, General Secretary
Senior Lecturer in Work and Organisational Psychology
Department of Work and Employment Studies
Kemmy Business School
University of Limerick
Ireland
deirdre.oshea@ul.ie 

Dr Deirdre O'Shea, F.Ps.S.I., C.Psychol.Ps.S.I., is Senior Lecturer and Director of Accreditations at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Psychological Society of Ireland and a chartered work and organisational psychologist. Deirdre's research interests include: psychological resource-based interventions, self-regulation, work motivation, emotions and emotion regulation, trust, proactive behaviour, occupational health psychology, and voice and silence in the workplace, amongst others. She has published her research in the EAWOP journals, as well as others such as: the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, and Work and Stress. Deirdre is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Behaviour and the Journal of Personnel Psychology. She is a member of the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology since January 2022.

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Dragos Iliescu, Treasurer
Professor of Work & Organizational Psychology
University of Bucharest
Sos Panduri 90, 050663 Bucharest, Romania
dragos.iliescu@fpse.unibuc.ro

Dragos Iliescu is a Professor of Psychology with the University of Bucharest. He has been active as a consultant for the past 20 years, being involved in and having led important projects related to tests, testing and assessment (among them more than 100 test adaptation projects), mainly in South-Eastern Europe, but also in South-East Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. He has served in various capacities for a number of national and international professional associations; among others he is the immediate Past-President (2016-2018) of the International Test Commission (ITC). He is an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Psychological Assessment, and the author of over 100 scientific papers, book chapters and books, among them the co-Editor of the acclaimed ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press, and the author of an important monography (Adapting tests in linguistic and cultural situations) published with Cambridge University Press. His research interests group around two domains: (1) psychometrics: psychological and educational assessment, tests and testing (with an important cross-cultural component), and (2) applied psychology, especially work, industrial and organizational psychology (with an important focus on occupational health and wellbeing).

Eva Derous
Associate Professor Personnel Psychology
Vocational and Personnel Psychology Lab
Department of Work, Organization and Society
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
eva.derous@ugent.be

Eva Derous is an Associate Professor and Head of the Vocational and Personnel Psychology Lab at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University (Belgium). She received her PhD from the KU Leuven (Belgium), worked at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and is a Fulbright alumnus (Michigan State University, USA). Eva investigates topics in recruitment and selection, cross-cultural psychology, and personnel decision-making (like hiring discrimination). She published in journals such as Personnel Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. Eva regularly advises organizations and is a member of several advisory boards on recruitment and selection.

Monica Molino, Assistant Professor in Work and Organisational Psychology

Department of Psychology
University of Turin
Via Giuseppe Verdi 10, 10124, Turin (Italy)
monica.molino@unito.it

Monica Molino (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology at the Department of Psychology of the University of Turin (Italy). Her research interests include: well-being at work, work-family interface, gender perspective in work and organizational psychology, workaholism, entrepreneurship, technology use and acceptance, applications of work and organizational psychology to Industry 4.0. Her research is informed by her experience as a practitioner in the field of organizational well-being. For six years she was a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Association of Psychology – WOP division and contributed to the lunch of the Early Career Researchers’ network of this association.

Ana Hernandez

Associate Professor
Department of Methodology of Behavioural Sciences and Research Institute of Personnel Psychology Organisational Development and Quality of Working Life
Faculty of Psychology
University of Valencia
Av. Basco Ibanez, 21. 46010 Valencia (Spain)
ana.hernandez@uv.es
 

Ana Hernandez is an associate professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). She has a double affiliation with the department of Methodology, and the Research Institute for Personnel Psychology, Organizational Development, and Quality of Working Life (IDOCAL).
Her main research interests in the field of Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP) are related to team climate, leadership, well-being at the workplace and job quality. She has recently published on these topics in journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology and Journal of Vocational Behavior, among others. She is consulting editor of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and has acted as ad-hoc reviewer for other top journals in the field. She has also co-led granted research projects on overqualification and job quality and has been member of the Test User Accreditation Committee of the EFPA that approved the accreditation criteria for test users in Work and Organizational contexts.
Her methodological research interests have to do with advanced research methods such as Multilevel Models and Structural Equation Models, and with the validity of psychological measurement instruments, particularly in organizational contexts. She has published about these topics in journals such as Multivariate Behavioral Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, Structural Equation Modeling, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Organizational Research Methods. Since March 2021, she coordinates the test commission of the Spanish Psychological Association and represents this association in the EFPA (European Federation of Psychological Associations) Board of Assessment. She is current secretary of the executive committees of AEMCCO (Spanish Association of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences), and the EAM (European Association of Methodology).

Hildur Jóna Bergþórsdóttir
People Manager at Icelandair
Reykjavík,  Iceland
Email: hildurjonabergthorsdottir@gmail.com

Hildur Jóna Bergþórsdóttir has a cand.psych degree from Aarhus University in Denmark, she has been a member at EAWOP since 2013 and is a member of the Icelandic Psychological association. She has worked as a practitioner since she graduated in 2006, first as a consultant at Gallup in Iceland, then as a HR Specialist at Landsvirkjun and today Hildur Jóna works as a People Manager at Icelandair. She is also a certified Gallup strengths coach since 2021.  Her projects over the years have been within Work and Organizational Psychology which include employee satisfaction surveys, employee well-being,  workplace bullying and harassment, strengths based training, management training,  gender equality, diversity and inclusion and recruitment. Hildur Jóna has worked both as an internal and external consultant with more than 16 years experience. Hildur Jóna loves communication and travelling and is married to Hákon and together they have two boys.