Adrienne Colella is the James McFarland Distinguished Chair in Business at the A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the Ohio State University. Professor Colella is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the American Psychological Association. She was the 2011-2012 President of SIOP.

Professor Colella’s research focuses on treatment issues regarding persons with disabilities in the workplace, diversity, discrimination, pay secrecy, and fairness. Professor Colella has also published or consulted on the topics of organizational entry, newcomer socialization, goal setting, utility analysis, and biographical data testing. Her research appears in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, among other places. She is the editor of a SIOP Frontiers Series book on the psychology of workplace discrimination and a co-author on an Organizational Behavior textbook. Professor Colella serves (or has served) on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, Human Resource Management Review, Human Performance, the SIOP Frontiers Series, and Human Resource Management.

Her research has been funded by the New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council, the Army Research Institute, the Navy Personnel R&D Center, Rutgers University, Texas A&M University, and Tulane University.

John M. Carroll is Edward Frymoyer Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. His research is in methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to networking tools for collaborative learning and problem solving, and design of interactive information systems. Books include Making Use (MIT, 2000), Usability Engineering (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2002, with M.B. Rosson), Rationale-Based Software Engineering (Springer, 2008, with J. Burge, R. McCall and I. Mistrik), Learning in Communities (Springer, 2009), The Neighborhood in the Internet (Routledge, 2012), and Creativity and Rationale: Enhancing Human Experience by Design (Springer, 2012). Carroll serves on several editorial boards for journals, handbooks, and series. He is editor of the Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics. Carroll has received the Rigo Award and the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award from ACM, the Silver Core Award from IFIP, the Goldsmith Award from IEEE. He is a fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Association for Psychological Science.

Ute Hülsheger is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Work and Social Psychology at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. in Work and Organizational Psychology from Bielefeld University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam.

Her research focuses on performance-related topics such as creativity and innovation and the role of cognitive abilities and personality for job performance. In addition, she studies occupational health-related topics such as emotional labor and the role of mindfulness for employee health and well-being.

Ute Hülsheger’s work has been published in journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Personality, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and International Journal of Selection and Assessment. She co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personnel Psychology , Journal of Business and Psychology, and the Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones). Her research has been funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the Educational Testing Service (ETS).

Filip Lievens is currently Professor at the Department of Personnel Management and Work and Organizational Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. Professor Dr. Filip Lievens is a world-renowned authority in the field of selection and assessment. He has published over 100 articles in the areas of high-stakes testing, assessment centers, situational judgment tests, and organizational attractiveness. Of those publications, 24 have been in Journal of Applied Psychology, which is regarded as the top journal in industrial and organizational psychology. This puts him in second place worldwide in terms of the number of publications in the Journal of Applied Psychology in the last decade. He is also second author of an authoritative review on personnel selection in Annual Review of Psychology. Overall, his research has been cited more than 1,000 times.

As recognition of his research contributions, he serves in the editorial board of both Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology. He was the first European winner of the prestigious Distinguished Early Career Award of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He also won the Douglas Bray and Ann Howard Award that recognizes outstanding contributions in the assessment domain. In Belgium, he was the first industrial and organizational psychologist to be Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts, an award to value substantial contributions in any discipline in social sciences.

Fillip Lievens has given over 200 presentations, workshops and invited keynote presentations across all continents (Europe, USA, Asia, Africa, and Australia). He has consulted for private, public, and military organizations and has served as “metaconsultant” on selection-related topics for national and international consultancy firms.

Todd Lubart is Professor of Psychology at the Université Paris Descartes, and former Member of the Institut Universiatire de France. He received his PhD from Yale University and was an invited professor at the Paris School of Management (ESCP). His research focuses on creativity, its identification and development within the multivariate, investment approach, the creative process and the effect of context on creative work. He is Director of the scientific laboratory “LATI” (Laboratoire Adaptations Travail-Individu); Todd Lubart has been in charge of several research grants on creativity (such as a study of creative processes in professional settings) and has organized international scientific congresses on creativity and innovation. He is author or co-author of approximately 100 scientific reports (journal papers, book chapters) on creativity, including Defying the crowd : Cultivating creativity in a culture of conformity (NY: Free Press, 1995), Psychologie de la créativité (The psychology of creativity, Paris: Colin, 2003). Finally, Todd Lubart was involved in the creation of a continuing education program on creativity in the workplace, which has served, over the past five years, more than 120 professionals from all major industrial sectors.

Deniz S. Ones is the Hellervik Professor of Industrial Psychology and a Distinguished McKnight Professor at the University of Minnesota. Ones received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and was advised by Frank Schmidt. Her research focuses on individual differences (e.g., personality, cognitive ability, job performance, counterproductive work behaviors, environmental sustainability behaviors) in work settings. She has received numerous prestigious awards for her research on individual differences in employee staffing, among them the 1998 Ernest J. McCormick Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), as well as the 2003 Cattell Early Career Research Award from the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology. In 2012, the Association of Test Publishers honored her with its Professional Contributions and Service to Testing Award. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association (Divisions 5 and 14 – SIOP), for which she also chaired the Committee on Psychological Testing and Assessment (CPTA). Previously, she co-edited the best-selling, two-volume Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology (2001) and served as an editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment. She has served/serves on editorial boards of a dozen journals in applied and general psychology. She has also edited special issues of several journals devoted to personality variables, use of cognitive ability in employee selection, and counterproductive work behaviors. Recently, she has co-chaired the 2011 SIOP’s Conference Theme Track on Environmental Sustainability and is the science co-chair of the 2012 SIOP Leading Edge Consortium on the same topic. With Susan Jackson and Stephan Dilchert, Ones has co-edited a volume on Managing Human Resources for Environmental Sustainability (2012). She is also publishing cutting edge research on the topic.

Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology and Social Theory at Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany. He also is an Affiliated Professor at the Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, New York. In 1997, he received his PhD in Political Science from Humboldt-University in Berlin. After that, he held teaching positions at the universities of Mannheim, Jena, Augsburg and Essen and served as Vice-President and General Secretary for Research Committee 35 (COCTA) of ISA and as one of the directors of the Annual International Conference on Philosophy and the Social Sciences in Prague. His publications focus on Social Acceleration and the Temporal Structures of Modernity as well as the Political Theory of Communitarianism.

Sabine Sonnentag is a full professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Mannheim, Germany. She studied psychology at the Free University Berlin and received her Ph.D. from the Technical University Braunschweig. Before she moved to Mannheim she held professorships in Germany and the Netherlands. Dr. Sonnentag’s research addresses the question how individuals can achieve sustainable high performance at work and remain healthy at the same time. She studies recovery from job stress, proactive work behavior, learning, and self-regulation in the job context.

Dr. Sonnentag publishes in journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. She has been the editor in chief of Applied Psychology: An International Review and currently serves on editorial boards of several scholarly journals. Since 2007 she is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Professional Experience
- 01.05.2012 appointed as Board Member Human Resources & Labor Director DPDHL
- 1991 – 2012 Daimler Group
- since 2011 Head of Marketing, Sales&Aftersales, EvoBus GmbH
- 2005 – 2011 Vice President Executive Management Development, Daimler AG, Stuttgart
- 2002 – 2005 General Manager Mercedes-Benz Factory, Spain
- 2000 – 2002 Head of Corporate Strategy, Daimler Chrysler AG, Stuttgart
- 1999 – 2000 Member of Executive Board DaimlerChrysler Bank, Daimler Chrysler AG, Stuttgart
- 1996 – 1999 CEO, MB Credit of Canada, Toronto
- 1994 – 1995 Assistant to Executive Board and Head of Internal and External Communications, Daimler-Benz Inter-Services Debis AG, Stuttgart
- 1991 – 1994 Head of Operational and Strategic Controlling, Mercedes-Benz Finanziaria SpA, Rom
- 1990 – 1991 Ruhr-University Bochum, Research Associate, Institute for Strategic Management

Donald Truxillo is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Portland State University. His work examines aging workforce issues including age stereotypes and job design for older and younger workers. In addition, his research examines personnel selection methods and applicant reactions to the selection process. He also examines the antecedents of workplace safety and worker health. His current research is funded by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Foundation and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Dr. Truxillo’s work has been published in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management. He is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Business and Psychology, and the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and he is an associate editor at the Journal of Management. He is currently co-editing a special issue of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology on age in the workplace, and he co-organized the EAWOP small group meeting at the University of Trento in November 2011 on age at work.

Dr. Truxillo served as Program Chair and Conference Chair for the SIOP conference, and he currently serves as chair of the SIOP International Affairs Committee. In addition, he has served as member-at-large on the SIOP Executive Board. He is a Fellow of SIOP, American Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association. He is the recipient of SIOP’s 2012 Distinguished Service Contributions Award.

In 2010 he was appointed to the Doctoral School Committee, Department of Psychological Science and Education, University of Trento.