Colloquium Organizing Group

Prof Dave Bartram

ITC Treasurer

Dave Bartram retired in July 2016. He was Chief Psychologist for CEB’s Talent Management Labs. Before SHL’s acquisition by CEB he was Research Director for SHL and prior to that Dean of the Faculty of Science and the Environment and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hull, UK.

He has been awarded Fellowships by the British Psychological Society (BPS), the Ergonomics Society, the International Test commission (ITC), the Academy of Social Sciences, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP). He is Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and honorary Professor at the University of Kent, UK.

He has been a member of the ITC Council since 1994 and has served as President (two terms) and as Secretary-General. He is currently Treasurer and Chairs the 2021 Colloquium Local Organizing Committee.

Ananda van Tonder

ITC Office Manager

Ananda van Tonder relocated from South-Africa to the United Kingdom in 2006 with extensive working experience covering that of Human Resources and Executive Personal Assistant.

After starting a family in 2009 she decided to move on from the “Corporate World” in order to restore work-life balance.

She pursued a part-time position advertised by the International Test Commission and was appointed in October 2011.

She has been part of the team ever since which has been almost 10 years, managing the ITC Office.

Prof Dragos Iliescu

ITC Council Member

Dragoș Iliescu is a Professor of Psychology with the University of Bucharest. He has been active as a consultant for the past 20 years, having led important projects related to tests, testing and assessment (among them more than 100 test adaptation projects), in South-Eastern Europe, SE Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America.

His research interests group around two domains. First, he is interested in applications of psychometrics: psychological and educational assessment, tests and testing; he is especially involved in comparative international educational assessments and takes a keen interest in the cross-cultural components of assessment. Second, he continues research in applied psychology, especially work, industrial and organizational psychology, with an important focus on occupational health and wellbeing

He has been a member of the ITC Council for [X] years and has served as President from 2016 to 2018.

Șerban Andrei Zanfirescu

Şerban-Andrei Zanfirescu, Ph.D., is currently teaching at the University of Bucharest, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences. Until recently, he has been a postdoctoral Fellow in Industrial Psychology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Șerban has a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest. During his time as a Ph.D. student, Șerban worked as a teaching assistant at the same university and published several research articles in peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Research in Personality, Current Psychology). His further research endeavors include occupational health psychology topics (e.g., workaholism), personality assessment, R statistics, and machine learning analyses.

Ana Toma

Ana Toma is a PhD student at the Doctoral School in Psychology and Educational Sciences (University of Bucharest), a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist in training at the Association of Psychopharmacotherapy and Cognitive Sciences, and a career counselor for the “Increasing Educational Equity and Combating School Dropout within the Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages (FILS), Challenges of the Intercultural Environment” project at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. She completed her bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (University of Bucharest) and further got her master’s degree in Health Psychology – Clinical Research and Behavior Optimization. She is also a member of Research Central (University of Bucharest) and a former member of the Laboratory of Cognitive Clinical Sciences, University of Bucharest (from 2017 to 2021). Research interests revolve around the fields of couple psychology, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy.

Daniel Cojocaru

Daniel Cojocaru is a clinical health psychologistsinterested in psychological measurement related to comprehensive clinical assessment and testing for psychodiagnosis, clinical neuropsychology, health behavior change interventions, and behavioral neuroscience.

He is a doctoral student in clinical psychology interested in chronic pain and health-risk behaviors, a researcher in Laboratory of Health Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, where he is also a teaching assistant.

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Catalina Popoviciu

Catalina Popoviciu is a clinical psychologist and a doctoral student at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Bucharest. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the impact of Social Media use on mental health. Currently, she is actively involved in the Center for Applied Psychology (CAP – www.appliedpsychology.ro), which is the main research arm at the Department of Psychology at the University of Bucharest. At the CAP, Catalina is the coordinator of the Social Media and Mental Health research lines.

Mihaela Zisu

Mihaela is a recent graduate of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest and is looking forward to pursuing a master’s degree in psychotherapy while also improving her academic research skills. Her journey with scientific research has started as an undergraduate student and currently continues with implicit impressions and cognitive biases as her main research interests. As her main accomplishment so far, for her bachelor’s thesis, Mihaela conducted an experiment on the role of personality traits in updating first explicit and implicit impressions. The paper was successfully presented during the 35^th EFPSA Congress and is currently under review for publication. Mihaela is also passionate about helping people feel better and get better. Therefore, her long-term goal is to balance evidence-based psychotherapy practice and an academic career..

Sergui Condrea

Sergiu Condrea recently got his master’s degree in Occupational Health and Human Resources Performance, at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (University of Bucharest). Also, he completed his bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (University of Bucharest). Further, Sergiu combines research and practice in the field of I/O Psychology, being a member of the Assessment and Individual Differences Lab (AID-Lab), within the Department of Psychology, University of Bucharest and a Human Resources Consultant. His research interests focus on individual differences, assessment, testing, and feedback in organizations.

Andreea Corbeanu

Andreea Corbeanu is doing a PhD. at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Science, University of Bucharest, Romania, on the topic of job performance. She is the Administrative Assistant of the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP) and an active member of the Assessment and Individual Differences (AID) Lab of the Psychology department of the Faculty. Her research interests include job performance, individual differences, organisational assessment, job attitudes.

Smaranda Gutu

Smaranda Gutu is a psychotherapist, educational psychologist and a doctoral student at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Bucharest. Her doctoral thesis focuses on risk and protective factors associated with adolescent identity development. Her research interests include Developmental and Educational Psychology with an emphasis on adolescent identity development, digital well-being, bullying, psychological assessment, and advanced methods in research.

Teodor Petre

Teodor is a recent graduate of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, and is looking forward to pursuing a master's degree in Educational Psychology. His most significant achievement is that he has been, until recently, the president of the Students' Association of Psychology and Education Sciences (ASPSE). He currently aspires to become a teacher with a strong research background.

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