COMMITTEES
Organising committee
Manik Djelantik, PhD, MD, co-chair
Manik is a psychiatrist and an assistant professor at UMC Utrecht / GGZ Altrecht-KOOS!
Her field of expertise is the assessment, theory and treatment of traumatic grief – the combination of persistent complex bereavement disorder, PTSD, and depression. Her other areas of interest include datascience, transdiagnostic approaches, child and youth psychiatry and refugees.
Manik is also a certified psychotrauma therapist.
Marloes Eidhof, MSc Psych, co-chair
Marloes is a board member of the Dutch Psychotrauma Association (NtVP). She is responsible for the organisation of conferences and webinars focusing on the state of the art within psychotrauma. She is a health (GZ)-psychologist, PhD student and member of the Dutch Top-class at Reinier van Arkel and the Radboud University. Her research focuses on the chronicity of PTSD, with special emphasis on avoidance and dissociation.
Anke de Haan, PhD, MSc Psych, co-chair
Anke is a post-doctoral researcher at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences at the University of Cambridge and at the Department of Psychology - Child and Adolescent Health Psychology at the University of Zurich. Her areas of interest include children and adolescents, cognitive models of PTSD, posttraumatic cognitions, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapies. Moreover, as part of her postgraduate training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, she is treating children and adolescents with a variety of psychological problems.
Annett Lotzin, PhD, co-chair
Annett is a post-doctoral researcher at the Trauma and Stress Research Group at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Hamburg and at Centra, the Refugee Coordination Centre of Hamburg. She is a lecturer in the field of Clinical Psychology and also works as a clinical psychologist with PTSD patients. Annett’s areas of interest and expertise include trauma-informed care approaches, transdiagnostic interventions after trauma exposure, emotional regulation and integrated treatment in PTSD, and addiction and trauma treatment in refugees.
Jana Kiralj, MSc Psych, co-chair liaison
Jana is a doctoral student of Psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Zagreb. She currently works as a research project assistant on a Horizon 2020 project FOCUS (Forced Displacement and Refugee-Host Community solidarity). She is a teaching assistant for several classes held at the Department of Psychology of her faculty and works in the Centre for Career Development as a Career counselor for students.
Her primary area of interest is social psychology, particularly socio-psychological integration of refugees and receiving societies.
Steering committee
Dean Ajdukovic
Jana (Darejan) Javakhishvili
Evaldas Kazlauskas
Joanne Mouthaan
Dominic Murphy
Zoran Suković
PhD, Professor at University of Zagreb, Croatia.
PhD, Professor and Director of the Institute of Addiction Studies at Ilia State University, Georgia.
PhD, Professor and Heaf of the Center for Psychotraumatology at Vilnius University, Lithuania.
PhD, Assistant Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
PhD, Head of Research at Cobat Stress, Northern Ireland and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London University, UK.
University of Rijeka, Croatia.
Scientific committee
Elena Acquarini
Dean Ajdukovic
Filip Arnberg
Maria Boettche
Maria Bragesjö
Aida Dias
Małgorzata Dragan
Jana (Darejan) Javakhishvili
Evaldas Kazlauskas
Nino Makhashvili
Joanne Mouthaan
Dominic Murphy
Neil Roberts
Dmytro Snisar
Aleksandra Stevanovic
Paulina Želvienė
PhD, Psychotherapist, lecturer and researcher at The University of Urbino, Italy.
PhD, Professor at University of Zagreb, Croatia.
PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden.
PhD, Licensed Psychotherapist and Postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Clinical Psychologist and a PhD student at Karolinska institute, Sweden.
Psychologist and researcher at Centro de Trauma, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
PhD, Professor and Director of the Institute of Addiction Studies at Ilia State University, Georgia.
PhD, Professor and Heaf of the Center for Psychotraumatology at Vilnius University, Lithuania.
Associate Professor and a Head of Mental Health Resource Center at Ilia State University, Georgia.
PhD, Assistant Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
PhD, Head of Research at Cobat Stress, Northern Ireland and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London University, UK.
Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Cardiff & Vale University Health Board and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University, Wales.
Psychologist and psychotherapist at UASOPTE (Ukrainian society of specialists on overcoming the consequences of traumatic events), Ukraine.
PhD, Postdoctoral researcher and assistant teacher at University of Rijeka, Croatia.
PhD, Clinical Psychologist and a senior researcher at Center for Psychotrumatology in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Volunteers
Asa Kerr-Davis
Burak Gunem
Jennie van Gerven
Jorin Blokland
Merel Velu
Saša Gorišek
Sofia Rocha
Stephanie Claire van der Stap
MSc
BSc, MSc student
MSc, Health-(GZ)-psychologist
MSc, Health-(GZ)-psychologist
MSc, PhD candidate
BSc, MSc student
MSc
BSc, MSc student