Tuulia M Ortner

Tuulia M. Ortner, PhD, has been head of the Department ofPsychological Assessment at the University of Salzburg (Austria)since 2012. She started working on objective personality testsmore than 15 years ago at the University of Vienna (Austria), andcontinued her research at the Free University of Berlin(Germany). She is a member of the Executive Committee of theEuropean Association of Psychological Assessment. Her currentresearch includes examining the validity of behavior-based testsand their convergence with other measures.Fons J.R. van de Vijver, PhD, is Professor of Cross-culturalPsychology at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and holdshonorary positions at North-West University (South Africa) andthe University of Queensland (Australia). He has publishedwidely on assessment issues, notably in the area of cross-culturalpsychology, and also serves on the Executive Committeeof the European Association of Psychological Assessment.