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- Dr Robin Wollast

Dr Wollast earned his PhD from Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. He has published numerous first-authored scientific articles in leading international journals and collaborated with highly regarded experts from America, Europe, and Asia. Most recently, Dr Wollast won the prestigious Belgian American Educational Foundation Award to conduct research at Stanford University. His primary research focuses on emotion and intergroup relations through various lenses, including culture, gender, and mental health as well as collective action, group polarisation, and ideological extremism. He leads several projects related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including large-scale studies conducted in more than 100 countries.
Dr Wollast's primary research focuses on emotion and intergroup relations through various lenses, including culture, gender, and mental health as well as collective action, group polarisation, and ideological extremism.