Keynote Speakers

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  Muhammad Mujtaba Asad

  Assistant Professor, Lead Researcher of Educational Technology & TVET Research, Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan.

  Dr. Muhammad Mujtaba Asad is serving as an Assistant Professor and Lead Researcher of Educational Technologies and TVET Research Group at Sukkur IBA University. Dr Mujtaba has national and international working experience of more than 10 years at industrial and educational sector in the domain of Educational Technologies, Work & Product-Based Education and Technical and Vocational Education. Dr. Mujtaba has published more than Sixty (60) research articles (ISI & Scopus Indexed) in reputed international journals and conferences worldwide. Also, a book related to the observational skills of competent educators under the CS publishing house USA is in his publication credit. He has also received three Gold, one Silver and one Bronze medal in international research and development completions with seven best research awards in Malaysia, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and UAE on his commercialized projects. Moreover, Dr. Mujtaba is also an active member of Seven (7) national and international research grants. Dr. Mujtaba is also an internationally certified educational technologist (Malaysian Board of Technologist) and holds certifications and qualification in industrial safety and health education from NIOSH and OSH Department of Ontario, Canada. He is also serving as an Editorial Board Member to twelve (12) reputed and indexed international journals. Dr. Mujtaba also holds several international Copyrights and has filed one Product Patent under the title of HAZFO Expert 1.0 for Drilling Operation. He had been awarded an honorary lifetime International Ambassadorship by University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia based on his academic achievements and community services. Dr. Mujtaba has also been awarded the title of approved PhD and MPhil/MS Supervisor by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
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  Dandan Tang

  Lecture, Zunyi Normal University, China.

  She graduated from the Department of Psychology of Southwest University in 2013. During her master's degree, she obtained “National Scholarship”, “Outstanding Graduate Student of Southwest University”, “Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Award of Southwest University in 2012”, “Outstanding Master of Southwest University in 2013”, and "Excellent Master's Thesis of Chongqing in 2014”.

  From July 2013 to June 2014, she has been a member of Professor Chen Antao's Cognitive Control Laboratory for engaging in research of cognitive neural mechanisms related to attention and cognitive control. From July 2014 to December, she joined the research team of Professor Li Hong who was one of Yangtze River Scholars, and engaged in research of inductive reasoning and its neural mechanisms. Now she teaches courses of psychological statistics, education statistics and measurement, physiological psychology, and psychological health education" in School of Education Science of Zunyi Normal College. About 30 papers have been published, such as PLoS One (IF=3.057, JCR 3), Biological Psychology (IF=3.234, JCR 2) and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (IF=3.634, JCR 2).
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  Aleksandra Luszczynska

  Professor, SWPS University, Wroclaw, Poland.

  Aleksandra Luszczynska, PhD, is professor of psychology at SWPS University, Wroclaw Poland, and research associate professor adjoint at Trauma, Health, & Hazards Center at University of Colorado (USA). Prof. Luszczynska is specializing in health behavior change intervention development, implementation, and evaluation. She leads CARE-BEH Center at SWPS University. Her research was funded by national and international bodies (including European Union’s Horizon 2020 and Joint Programming Initiative). Before joining SWPS University, Prof. Luszczynska held positions at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and University of Sussex (England). She has published over 140 papers (cited over 4200, h-index 35; Web of Science) and has been internationally awarded for her research work with Fellowships and Scientific Awards (e.g., by European Health Psychology and International Association of Applied Psychology). Currently, she is editorial board member of 7 impacted journals.
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  Mohd Asyraf Zulkffli

  Academician, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia.

  Mohd Asyraf Zulkffli is an academician at Faculty of Language Studies and Human Development, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia. He specializes in the field of Discursive Psychology where he employs it to study LGBQIA+ topics in the Malay Muslim context. He has published on the topics in several Scopus and WOS-indexed journal as well as a book chapter. He has also participated in more than 40 programs/workshops/academic conferences during the past years.He currently focuses on the topic of Gay Men in Straight Marriages (GMiSM).
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  NEETHU P. S

  Assistant professor, Department of Sports Psychology, Central University of Rajasthan, India.

  Dr. Neethu. P. S is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sports Psychology, Central University of Rajasthan. She got her Ph.D in Applied Psychology in 2018 at Pondicherry University. From June 2020 to September 2020, Dr. Neethu. P. S worked as Assistant Professor of Psychology in Department of Psychology, Little Flower Institute of Social Sciences and Health (LISSAH). Before that, she worked as Assistant Professor of Psychology in Department of Applied Psychology at Central University of Tamil Nadu. Dr. Neethu. P. S is also an editorial board member of the Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Therapy. She has published more than 10 articles in various national and international journals and participated more than 20 conferences/ workshops/ seminars on national and international level. Core area of her research includes environmental psychology, sports psychology, health and wellbeing, and research methodology.
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  Neşe (Üner) Alkan

  Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Atilim University, Turkey.

  Prof. Neşe Alkan got her B.S., M.S. and Ph. D. at Middle East Technical University. She worked as an assistant at International Relations Office in the same university after she graduated. Presently Prof. Neşe Alkan is a faculty member in Department of Psychology at Atilim University. She also serves as a reviewer in several SSCI and National Academic Journals. Her research interests includes Serbest Dalış Sporcularında Apnea Performansı ve Psikolojik Etmenlerin İncelenmesi, Emotions, Cognitive appraisals, Five Factor Theory, Coping.
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  Liad Mudrik

  Associate Professor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

  Prof. Mudrik started her academic career as student of the interdisciplinary program for outstanding students. She completed two Ph.D. dissertations at Tel Aviv University, including a rare double PhD, one in neuroscience and the other in philosophy. She then continued to work as a postdoctoral fellow at the division of biology at the California Institute of Technology, and joined the school of psychological sciences inTel-AvivUniversityas a faculty member in 2015. Prof. Mudrik studies high-level cognition and its neural substrates, focusing on conscious experience, mostly using electrophysiological and behavioral methods. She has been selected as one of Israel’s 50 most influential women for 2017 by Forbes Magazine. 
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  Guneet Inder Jit Kaur

  Assistant Professor, Central University of Rajasthan, India.

  Dr. Guneet Inder Jit Kaur is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sports Psychology, School of Sports Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan. She was previously the HOD and Research Coordinator of the Department of Psychology in JAIN (Deemed-to-be-University), Bangalore. She is a University Gold Medallist having done her Masters from Panjab University, Chandigarh with specialisation in Sports Psychology, Organisational Behaviour, Health Psychology and has earned her PhD in the area of Excellence in Sports and Academics. She is the Associate Editor of UGC Care listed journal- Indian Journal of Psychology and the Associate Editor of Asian Journal of Psychology and Education. As a Sport Psychologist, she has worked with athletes in the areas of mental training for performance enhancement. She has published 27 research articles and has presented 36+ research presentations at 66 International and National Conferences/Seminars and has recently been awarded Prof. Deepak Bhat Award for Best Paper Presentation in the session at the 56th National and 25th International conference of IAAP (2021). She has guided 4 M.Phil., 28 M.Sc. and 31 PGD sports psychology projects. She has been invited at various International and National conferences/seminars and has delivered 27 invited talks on diverse fields of Psychology. She has presented her research titled ‘Psychological Profile of High Achievers in Sports’ in the 15th World Congress of International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) Taipei, 2021. She earlier presented ‘Triguna Personality and Mental Training: Significance of Grit and Enthusiasm for Excellence in Sports’ as a part of the Invited Symposium in the 8th World Congress on Mind Training for Excellence in Sport & Life, in Gavle (SWEDEN), from 12th-16th June, 2019 and was also a part of the Invited Symposium on ‘Sports Psychology’ at the ISSP 14th World Congress (2017) on Sport Psychology from July 10-14, held at University of Sevilla, Sevilla (SPAIN). Her research interests include Sports Psychology (Excellence, Peak Performance, Mental Toughness, PST and Paralympics), Health Psychology & Positive Psychology (Post Traumatic Growth, Resilience, Grit, Perfectionism and Life Skills), Social Psychology (Shared Identities), Organizational Behaviour (Competitive Psychological Climate) and Indian Psychology (Triguna Personality).