Team | Psychology of religion UCL Center

Current Members

Vassilis Saroglou

full professor, director

Research: Religion, spirituality, fundamentalism, and atheism from a personality, social, moral, and cross-cultural psychological perspective

Education: MA in theology (1988, U. of Athens) and religious studies (1992, UCL), BA in philosophy (1990), BA (1992), MA (1994), and PhD (1999) in psychology, at UCLouvain

Research career: grad studies fellowships (1989-1995; CC-IT & Onassis Foundation-GR), research fellow (1995-1999, FNRS), FSR postdoc (1999-2001, UCL), postdoc Fulbright (2000, College of William & Mary)

Academic career: assist prof (2001), assoc prof (2004), prof (2009), and full prof (2013) at UCLouvain; visiting scholar/prof at UC Lille (1997-2004), Arizona State U (2009), and New York U (2017)

See webpage or CV for Publications, expertise (editorial, evaluation, supervision), awards, grants, service (national and international), and pres-media impact. Email

James Day

professor

Research: Religious, social, and moral development; clinical psychology of religion

Education: A.B. in religious studies (1977, Oberlin College), Ed.M. in counseling & consulting psychology (1981, Harvard U), PhD in professional psychology (1987, U of Pennsylvania), C.T.M. in theology for ministry (2000, U of Cambridge)

Academic career: assist prof (1987) and assoc prof (1989) at Boston U; assoc prof (1992) and prof (1998) at UCLouvain; adjunct prof (2000) at Univ of New Hampshire

See the webpage of Publications. Email

Magali Clobert

postdoc, FNRS research associate

Research: Cross-cultural psychology of religion, emotions, morality, and social behavior

Education: MA in psychology (2009), MA in Eastern studies (2010), PhD in psychology (2014): UCLouvain

Research career: FNRS research fellow (2010-2014) at UCLouvain, visiting (2011) at Nat Taiwan Univ, BAEF postdoc and postdoc research associate (2014-2017) at Stanford U., FNRS research associate (2017- ) at UCLouvain

Publications: 2019, 2019, 2017, 2017, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2014, 2013; see also Magali Clobert's CV

Awards & distinctions: Finalist for the Triandis Dissertation Award 2014 by the Intern Assoc for Cross-Cultural Psychology; travel grants (FNRS and FSR)

Filip Uzarevic

PhD student, FNRS research fellow

Research: Psychology of unbelief and atheism; social cognition and dogmatism

Education: BA in psychology (2009), MA in psychology (2013), U. of Zagreb; PhD in psychology, UCLouvain (2014-2019)

Research career: Erasmus research trainee (2012), JTF research fellow (2014-2015), FNRS research fellow (2015-2019) at UCLouvain; visiting scholar: Conventry University (2017), Oxford University (2019)

Publications: in press, in press, 2019, 2017, 2016a, 2016b

Conference papers: National conf Croatia 2011 & 2012, BASP 2013, IAPR 2013, 2015, 2019, CERE 2016, SPSP 2015, 2016, 2017, APS 2018, ECP 2018, ICPS 2017, 2019

Awards and distinctions: Traver award (SPSP, 2017), travel grants (FNRS, 2017, 2019)

Carlos Alcala Marcos

PhD student, UCLouvain FSR research fellow

Research: Nature's influences on morality and spirituality

Education: BA in psychology, U. of Salamanca (2014), Diploma in positive psychology, U. Jaume I (2016), MA in psychology, U of Jaén, Spain (2016), PhD in psychology, UCLouvain (2018- )

Research career: Erasmus research trainee, KULeuven (2016), Visiting scholar, UCLouvain (2017-2018), UCLouvain FSR research fellow (2018- )

Distinctions: Seneca scholarship, U. of Barcelona (2012-2013), Erasmus scholarship, KULeuven (2013-2014)

Conference presentations: IAPR 2019

Mohamed Ashraf Abdou

PhD student (sc. of religion), UCLouvain CAI research fellow

Research: Fundamentalism and religious dimensions across religions and cultures

Education: Degree in Islamology (2007), MA in Islamic studies (2017), U of Al-Azhar, PhD in sciences of religion-psychology, UCLouvain (2018- )

Research career: Teaching assistant (2012-2017), Maitre-assistant (2017-2018), Islamic Studies in French, U of Al-Azhar, Caire, and member of the Al-Azhar Observatory for combating extremism (2015- ); UCLouvain CAI research fellow (2018- )

Conference presentations: IAPR 2019

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