Julian Leslie (D.Phil Oxford University, DSc Ulster University) has been full professor of Psychology since 1986. He was head of Department of Psychology Ulster University from 1984 to 1994, and head of the Research Graduate School, Faculty of Life & Health Sciences, Ulster University from 2008 to 2015.

He has. been publishing in psychology, behaviour analysis and related fields since 1972, and  now has more than 150 publications. He has published several textbooks on behaviour analysis which remain in print.

As well as teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, he has successfully supervised 50 students  who  have obtained PhDs  in fields including, experimental analysis of behaviour, applied behaviour analysis, psychopharmacology, behavioural neuroscience, experimental psychology, applied psychology.

He co-founded of the group, Behaviour Analysis in Ireland which is a chapter of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, and in 2004 the group became the Division of Behaviour Analysis of the Psychological Society of Ireland, of which he was chair 2008-2020.

He organised the Third European Meeting for the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour in Dublin, Ireland 1999, and co-organised 13 annual conferences of the Division of Behaviour Analysis from 2007 to 2019, variously in Dublin, Galway and Athlone.

He was a keynote speaker at the European Association for Behaviour Analysis in Milan in 2006, in Crete, Greece in 2010, and at the Brazilian Association for Behaviour Analysis, Salvador 2011.

In 2018 he was appointed as a  Fellow, Association for Behavior Analysis International. He was awarded the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA) Award for International Dissemination of Behavior Analysis in May 2020.

His current research interests include behavioural strategies for disease prevention, computer-based enhancement of teaching reading, understanding eye-movements as learnt behaviour, and conceptual issues in behaviour analysis.

Dr. Diego Zilio received his Doctorate Degree (Sc.D.) in Experimental Psychology from the University of São Paulo (USP) at São Paulo in August of 2013. Zilio’s dissertation focused on the synthesis between behavior analysis and neuroscience. During this period he was a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology and Logic from the State University of São Paulo  (UNESP) at Marilia. Zilio’s master’s thesis provided a radical behavioristic perspective about the main problems in contemporary Philosophy of Mind. As an undergrad, he has a License in Psychology from the State University of São Paulo at Bauru. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology and Permanent Professor at the Graduate Program in Psychology, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. He has been and currently is advisor of several undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Zilio is the head of the GEPPSAC – Behavior Analytic Social Psychology Research Group. He has published papers in a number of different journals, including The Behavior Analyst (Perspectives on Behavior Science), Behavior and Philosophy, The Psychological Record, Behavior and Social Issues, Review of General Psychology, Acta Comportamentalia, Brazilian Journal of Behavior Analysis, among others. He has published and organized several books in Portuguese, including The Behavioral Nature of Mind: Radical Behaviorism and Philosophy of Mind and, with Kester Carrara, the three-volume series Behaviorisms: Conceptual and Historical Issues. He is the general editor of Acta Comportamentalia, and associated editor of Brazilian Journal of Behavior Analysis, Perspectives on Behavior Analysis and Themes in Psychology. He has served on the editorials board of Behavior and Philosophy and as invited reviewer for several journals including Perspectives on Behavior Science, The Psychological Record, Behavior and Philosophy, Review of General Psychology among others. Dr. Zilio develops philosophical, conceptual and historical research concerning behavior analysis, discussing topics such as the nature of mind and behavior, the relation of behavior analysis with neuroscience as well as the relation of behavior analysis with the social sciences. Currently, his main focus of interest is in systematizing a behavior-analytic social psychology.

Dr. José E. Burgos received his PhD in Neuroscience and Behavior from the University of Massachusetts in May of 1996 (Advisor: John W. Donahoe). Burgos’ dissertation focused on a computational approach to the evolution of Pavlovian conditioning that combined a neural-network model and a genetic algorithm. He also holds an MS in Experimental Analysis of Behavior and completed all course credits of an MS in the philosophy of science, both at the Central University of Venezuela. As an undergrad, he has a License in Psychology from the Andrés Bello Catholic University, also in Venezuela. He is currently Full Professor at the Graduate Program in Behavior Science of the Center for Behavior Studies and Investigations, University of Guadalajara, where he teaches courses on Brain and Behavior and Philosophy of Science. He is also invited professor at the Graduate Program in Philosophical Studies at the University of Guadalajara, where he teaches Philosophy of Mind. He has been and currently is advisor of several graduate students. He also develops experimental research to test novel predictions from a neural-network model of Pavlovian and operant conditioning with animals, in addition to research on the philosophy of psychology. Dr. Burgos has published papers in a number of different journals, including Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB), Behavioral and Brain Sciences (as commentator), Behavior and Philosophy, Behavioural Processes, Psycoloquy, International Journal of Comparative Psychology, and Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, has published numerous book chapters, and has been editor of several books. He was editor of the Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis (2000-2004). He has also presented papers at conferences worldwide, including SQAB and ABA. Dr. Burgos has been recognized with several awards, including the Jalisco Secretary of Education Award for contributions to the design of psychology undergraduate curricula, the Mexican Secretary of Education Professorship Desirable Profile, the Mexican National Research System (Level II), and various research awards from the University of Guadalajara. He has served on the editorials board of Behavior and Philosophy and the Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, and as invited reviewer for JEAB and Learning & Behavior.