Stehlíková began her research appointment at Anglo-American University in 2026. Her academic experience includes roles at the University of Westminster, the Royal College of Art, and the University of Creative Communication in Prague. She also teaches artistic research at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and UMPRUM.

Her cross-disciplinary research connects artistic practice, sensory studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, and art-science dialogue. Her monograph Exiled from Our Bodies: How to Come Back to Our Senses was published by Routledge in 2025. She is founder and editor of Tangible Territory and co-founder of “Ecstatic Truth,” an international symposium series on expanded animation and documentary practice.

Her films, installations and participatory performances have been presented internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, Prague Quadrennial, Somerset House, Stadtkino Vienna, the British Film Institute London Film Festival, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, and the Under_the_RADAR festival in Vienna.

She has developed and co-developed several diagnostic and intervention tools widely used in Czech educational and counselling practice and has contributed to many national and international research projects, including the Multilingual Assessment Battery of Early Literacy (MABEL) (). She is a member of the International Society for Scientific Studies of Reading and a founding member of the European Literacy Network. Alongside her research, she has extensive experience in lifelong learning programs for professionals in psychology, counselling, and speech therapy, and is dedicated to mentoring students and early career researchers.

After serving as a postdoctoral research scientist (1994-1997) at SUNY-Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, Chris held faculty positions at Mount Holyoke College (1997-1998), Troy University (1998-2005), and Kennesaw State University (2005-2025). Chris has also served in a variety of administrative roles during his career, including Psychology Department Chair and Interim Dean of the College of Education at Troy University, Associate Director for Technology-Enhanced Learning in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Kennesaw State University, and Assistant Chair and Interim Department Chair of the Department of Psychological Science at Kennesaw State University.

Chris’s current scholarly focus and research interests include comparative & evolutionary psychology, learning and behavior, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

His research is conducted on rats and humans in an attempt to understand how the brain and its neurochemical systems are organized for basic sexual responses such as arousal, desire, sexual pleasure and orgasm, and sexual inhibition and disgust. His work has illuminated the neural and molecular mechanisms by which conditioned sexual responses potentiate sexual preferences and reproduction and how they contribute to the development of fetishes and paraphilias. He has received several prestigious international awards for this work.

He has published more than 260 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters on the neurobiology of sexual behavior in women and men, and his work has led to the development of new drugs to treat sexual dysfunctions and ways to offset the effects of medications that have debilitating side effects on sexuality. He has given hundreds of interviews on television, radio, and social media, and his work has been featured in films and documentaries. He is the editor-in-chief of Current Sexual Health Reports, an associate editor of Sexual Medicine Reviews and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, a former associate editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, and he serves on the editorial boards of other scientific journals in the fields of sexuality, neuroscience, and pharmacology. He is a member of several international organizations, including the International and Europeans Societies for Sexual Medicine, the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, Society for Neuroscience, and International Academy of Sex Research (where he served as president from 2016-2017). 

She has led multiple grant-funded projects on olfactory perception, developmental psychology, and affective processes. Her research has been published in leading international journals and has contributed to advancing the interdisciplinary understanding of sensory processes within psychology and behavioral sciences. She is an active member of several international professional societies dedicated to chemosensory science and human ethology, including the European Chemoreception Research Organization.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors, reading popular cosmology books, practicing aromachology, and pole dancing.

In her role as Assistant Dean and Lecturer at Anglo-American University, she works closely with students to support academic progression and personal development in an international learning environment, helping them cultivate the skills and mindset needed for academic success.

As a mental-health counsellor, she has assisted others through life transitions, existential crises, and personality realignment. With her clients, she explores core life concerns through positive, transformative processes of emotional healing, self-discovery, and personal growth.

His research focuses on consciousness studies, ADHD, and biological psychology, with recent work in in silico research and AI models for personalized medicine. He also explores the impact of viral infections and inflammation on mental health. Passionate about the mind-body connection and the nature of consciousness, Wiesenberger brings a multidisciplinary approach to his work.

Beyond psychology, he has experience in the field of nutritional supplements targeting the endocannabinoid system and has an extensive background in scientific journal editing. He currently serves as an editor for Frontiers in Psychology in the Consciousness Studies section. He also has a strong interest in philosophy and Western spiritual traditions, including Hermeticism and Kabbalah.

In his free time, he enjoys hiking in the mountains, spending time in forests, and exploring the world’s architectural heritage.

He furthered his studies by earning an MSc in Organizational and Work Psychology from the University of Limerick, Ireland. Borg’s undergraduate dissertation examined how local primary school teachers integrate gamification techniques into their teaching, while his master’s research investigated whether gamified training influences job applicants’ perceptions of a company compared to conventional training approaches.

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Dr. Dodds is a practicing psychotherapist in private practice with two decades of clinical experience. He is a Senior Permanent Lecturer at AAU and also teaches at the University of New York in Prague, the Czech Psychoanalytical Society, the Prague Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, and the Centre for Leadership and Affective Neuroscience (C-LAN). He has previously worked at the Ellern Mede Centre for Young People With Eating Disorders in London, at Charles University in Prague, and the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York.

Joseph Dodds holds a BSc in Psychology and Neuroscience from Manchester University, an MA and an MPhil in Psychoanalytic Studies from Sheffield University, a PhD from the University of Bolton, as well as numerous other diplomas and professional qualifications including Diplomas in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and in Addiction Counselling from the University of West of Scotland/Institute of Counselling. Dr. Dodds’ research interests include the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience, and the application of psychological insight into the domains of culture, society, art, film and ecology. Currently, his main focus is on the psychology of climate change and he is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters, including the groundbreaking book Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos: Complexity theory, Deleuze|Guattari, and psychoanalysis for a climate in crisis (Dodds, 2011, Routledge).

Psychology of Art and Culture, Psychoanalysis and Art, Psychoanalysis and Society, Psychoanalysis and Film, Psychology of Environmental Crisis.