Engaging in the Scholarly Conversation

Mayron Piccolo is a psychopathologist with expertise in experimental research with clinical and non-clinical populations and experience in self-reporting, behavioral, neuroimage, and statistical analyses. He has extensive teaching experience in multiple countries and languages delivering psychology- and neuroscience-related courses.

Alexandra Sedlovskaya is Associate Director at the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School, where her work focuses on management education and pedagogies that support participant-centered learning. Research areas include self and identity, case method teaching, curricular innovations, online and hybrid teaching, and teaching effectiveness. Sedlovskaya has published her research in scholarly journals, including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. She teaches a hybrid course and online courses at the Harvard Extension School. Drawing on her research and teaching, Sedlovskaya consults faculty at Harvard Business School and leads workshops for academic institutions and corporations in the United States and abroad. Sedlovskaya obtained her PhD in psychology from Yale University in 2011 and extended her research training as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale School of Management. As a doctoral student, Sedlovskaya was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Grant to conduct research on diversity and social stigma in organizations. Sedlovskaya earned her BA at Wesleyan University, graduating as valedictorian in 2004.

Dr. Vladimir Ivkovic is a translational neuroscientist, integrative physiologist, and former firefighter/emergency medical technician (EMT). His research focuses on applying portable brain imaging and physiology monitoring for assessment and optimization of health and performance in extreme environments and the translation of these tools into clinical and operational practice. His work spans studies on the effects of spaceflight on sleep, brain function, operational performance, psychoneuroimmunology, and the development of neuromodulation countermeasures for moon and Mars missions, as well as identifying predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in firefighters and other first responders. Ivkovic works in extreme and clinical environments such as the International Space Station, European Space Agency (ESA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) microgravity flights, NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), Antarctica, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) :envihab facility, and operational firefighting, as well as clinical emergency medical and psychiatric settings. He currently serves as a principal investigator on three integrated studies on Behavior Associated with Sleep and Immunity in Space (BASIS, BASIS-PNI, and BASIS-PNI-BR) within NASA's Complement of Integrated Protocols for Human Exploration Research (CIPHER) project, as well as other studies funded by NASA and US Veterans Administration. He teaches both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including courses in neuroscience, spaceflight and extreme physiology, psychophysiology, and neurobiology, and has mentored undergraduate and graduate students.