Gökmen Arslan, PhD, is an professor at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University in Türkiye and an honorary senior fellow at the Center for Wellbeing, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a researcher in the field of counselling psychology, with a core interest in children and adolescent mental health and wellbeing. His research explores how best to provide meaningful interventions and resources that promote positive youth resilience and wellbeing. He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Happiness and Health and is a consultant to numerous scientific journals for interdisciplinary, multi-cultural research and development addressing youth resilience, mental health and wellbeing.
Charles Martin-Krumm is a Full Professor at the Ecole de Psychologues Praticiens de Paris, Director of the VCR research team and PPA (International Positive Psychology Association) Fellow. His research focus on the study of processes in which optimism can be implicated in the contexts of education and sport. His works concern the study of interactions between optimism and various affective, cognitive, or behavioral variables.
Silvia Majercakova Albertova, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of School Psychology and Director of the School Psychology Program at Barry University in Miami, USA. Formerly the Director of the Centre of Positive Psychology at the Pan-European University in Bratislava, Slovakia, her research focuses on applied positive school psychology, particularly student and teacher mental health and well-being, social-emotional health, school climate, school belonging, and mindfulness. She also serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Positive School and Educational Psychology (JOSEP) and the Journal of Happiness and Health (JOHAH)