Eva Asselmann is a professor at the Health and Medical University in Potsdam, Germany. Her research focuses on differential, personality, and clinical psychology. She is particularly interested in changes in personality, health, and well-being in the years around childbirth, targeted prevention and early intervention, and statistical modeling of epidemiological and large population-based panel data.

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg is a professor at the ISPA Lisbon, Portugal. Her research areas are child and family studies. Her research interests include parenting, attachment, and hormonal assessments in fathers during the perinatal period, perinatal interventions aiming at promoting fathers’ and mothers’ sensitive parenting behaviors, and meta-analyses.

Paula Bange is a doctoral researcher at the Tilburg University, Netherlands. Her research interests include personality, developmental, and lifespan psychology, and behavior genetics. She is particularly interested in personality development (e.g., Big Five and values) in the context of major life events, dyadic and longitudinal data analysis, and behavior genetic approaches (e.g., co-twin control designs to strengthen causal inferences).

Saskia Charlotte Baumgardt is a doctoral researcher at the Health and Medical University in Potsdam, Germany. Her research areas include differential, personality, and clinical psychology. She is particularly interested in the interaction between personality, dyadic stress management, and relationship satisfaction before and after childbirth, and dyadic data analysis.

Luisa Bergunde is a doctoral researcher at the Technical University Dresden, Germany. Her research interests include clinical, perinatal, and biological psychology. She has expertise in (childbirth-related) posttraumatic stress disorder, endocrine assessments (i.e., hair analyses) and changes (i.e., in cortisol and the endocannabinoid system) during the perinatal period, their associations with parental and child outcomes, and prospective cohort studies.

Meike Blecker, M.Sc.

Christina Ewert

Susan Garthus-Niegel

Ariane Göbel is a psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Medical School Hamburg, Germany, and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Her research interests are perinatal mental health, expectations of and adjustment to the parental role, the developing parent-child relationship and early parent-child interaction, early child development, as well as mixed-methods research designs.

Christina Juchem is a doctoral researcher at the Health and Medical University in Potsdam, Germany. Her research areas include differential, personality, and clinical psychology. She is particularly interested in the interactions between personality, dyadic stress management, and relationship satisfaction before and after childbirth, dyadic data analysis, and targeted interventions to promote personality development.

Sarah Kittel-Schneider is a professor at the University College Cork, Ireland. Her research focuses on psychiatry, psychosocial, and biological risk factors of perinatal mental disorders. She has expertise in externalizing psychopathology (e.g., ADHD) in parents during the perinatal period, prevention, treatment, and management of perinatal mental disorders, and biological risk factors, including the role of diet and microbiome in mental health.

Tina Kretschmer
is a professor at the University of Groningen. Her research areas are developmental psychology, and pedagogy. She has expertise in intergenerational transmission processes, gene-environment interactions, developmental precursors of parenting and offspring early development, and multiple-generation studies.

Anna Leutritz is a postdoctoral researcher at the University Medical Center Würzburg, Germany. Her research areas are neuroscience of attachment and perinatal mental health. Her research interests include neural correlates of social interaction in the context of attachment, influence of specific stressors (e.g., baby crying) on perinatal mental health and their neural correlates, and prevention, treatment, and management of perinatal mental disorders.

Julia Martini is a professor at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Her research focuses on perinatal mental disorders. She has expertise in epidemiology, family-genetic and environmental risk and protective factors for perinatal mental disorders; changes in family relations around childbirth, early child development and regulatory disorders, and early identification, prevention, and targeted intervention of perinatal mental disorders.

Susanne Mudra is a postdoctoral researcher at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist Susanne’s research interest lies in the mutual interplay between parent and child mental health, the developing parent-infant relationship and risk and protective factors for the longitudinal child development, starting in the prenatal period. Her research focusses on the transition to parenthood, prenatal stress, pregnancy-related anxiety and peripartum mood disorders as well as parental reflective functioning considering child-related factors such as infant temperament and early childhood mental health.

Steffen Peters is a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. His research areas include sociology, psychological factors, and family formation processes. He is particularly interested in prospective associations between personality and family formation processes (i.e., fertility, marriage, and dissolution processes) and event-history analyses.

Anne Reitz is a professor at the University of Greifswald, Germany. Her research areas are personality, developmental, and lifespan psychology. Her research interests include changes in personality and well-being in the context of major life transitions (parenthood, educational, and work transitions), (intensive) longitudinal studies, and person-environment transactions.

Lydia Rihm is a doctoral researcher at the Medical School Hamburg, Germany. Her research interests include perinatal, couple, and family psychology. She is particularly interested in prospective associations of parental role distributions, mental health, relationship satisfaction, and child development, relations between maternal and paternal involvement in childcare, mental health, health-related quality of life, and child outcomes.

Sarah Schumacher is a professor at the Health and Medical University in Potsdam, Germany. Her research focuses on the psychobiology of stress-related mental disorders, interactions of (traumatic) stress and mental health during the female reproductive lifespan, subjective birth experience and birth-related posttraumatic stress, (psychobiological) psychotherapy studies, and ambulatory assessments.

Lara Seefeld is a doctoral researcher at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Her research areas include differential, personality and clinical psychology. She is particularly interested in subjective birth experiences of parents, birth-related posttraumatic stress disorder, parental relationship satisfaction, dyadic data analysis, and prospective cohort studies.

Olga Stavrova is a professor at the University of Lübeck, Germany. Her research areas are personality, social and quantitative psychology. She is particularly interested in subjective well-being, social interactions, relationship research, cross-national and cross-cultural comparative research, trust, the intersection of personality and social/organizational psychology, dyadic analysis, text analysis, and (intensive) longitudinal studies.

Tilmann von Soest is a professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. He conducts research in personality, developmental, health, and quantitative psychology. His research focuses on personality, mental health, self-esteem, and loneliness from a developmental perspective and statistical modeling of large-scale longitudinal data.

Jenny Wagner is a professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research areas are personality, developmental, and educational psychology. Her research focuses on personality development, change within and between individuals, sources and outcomes of personality stability and change, integration of different time scales, personality-relationship transactions, and dyadic and network analysis.