Weihua Niu
Email: wniu@pace.edu

Weihua Niu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, Pace University. She graduated with a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale in 2003. Her primary research focuses on cultural influence on human potentials, including creativity, reasoning, and mathematical thinking.

Mercedes Ferrando Prieto
Email: mercedes.ferrando@tufts.edu

Dr. Mercedes Ferrando is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the PACE Center, sponsored by the Seneca Foundation (Regional Agency of Science and Technology, Murcia, Spain). She graduated with a PhD in gifted and emotional intelligence from Murcia University in 2006, and was a PhD Research Fellow (sponsored by the Spanish Educational Ministry, 2003-2006). Previously, she was a pre-doctoral research fellow at the University of doMinho (Braga, Portugal), a PhD student at Warwick University (Institute of Education, UK, grant sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology), and a PhD student at Canterbury Christ Church University in the Educational Research Centre, UK (sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology). Her research is focused on creativity, intelligence, gifted and talented children, thinking skills and emotional intelligence.

Jiyoung Ryu
Email: Jiyoung.Ryu@tufts.edu

Dr. Ryu received her Ed.M. degree in human development and psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her doctoral degree in gifted education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She started her career as a research professor at the Institute for IT-Gifted Youth of the Information and Communications University in Korea. She worked with high school students who showed talents in computer-related areas and students from many countries, such as the United States, Jordan, Singapore, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Vietnam, as well as Korean students.

Her primary research areas include intelligence, creativity, program development for gifted and talented students, psychological adjustment of gifted students, and neuroscience-education interfaces.