Professor Miranda Giorgashvili is the Head of the School of Psychology and Social Sciences at Kutaisi International University. She earned her PhD in Psychology from Tbilisi State University in 2019. From 2012 to 2024, she held various academic positions—including invited lecturer, assistant professor, and full professor—across multiple universities.
Following her doctoral studies, she further advanced her qualifications in psychotherapy through specialized training at the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society (USA) and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center (USA) from 2021 to 2023. Since 2021, she has been actively engaged in clinical practice, specializing in psychodynamic group psychotherapy and psychodynamic individual psychotherapy. She is currently a member of the Lacanian Psychoanalytic Society and is undergoing training as a psychoanalyst.
Professor Giorgashvili’s academic interests include social psychology, small-group and mass psychology, and political psychology. Her research focuses on social perception, information processing mechanisms, the influence of emotions on political decision-making, and the impact of contemporary culture on individual psychology.
Professor Claus-Christian Carbon studied Psychology (Dipl.-Psych.), followed by Philosophy (M.A.), both at University of Trier, Germany. After receiving his PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin and his “Habilitation” at the University of Vienna, Austria, he worked at the University of Technology Delft, Netherlands and the University of Bamberg, Germany, where he currently holds a full professorship leading the Department of General Psychology and Methodology and the “Forschungsgruppe EPAEG”—a research group devoted to enhancing the knowledge, methodology and enthusiasm in the fields of cognitive ergonomics, psychological aesthetics and Gestalt (see www.experimental-psychology.com and www.epaeg.de for more details).
He is the author of more than 500 publications, including more than 240 peer-reviewed international journal articles, mainly addressing perceptual topics, and has conducted more than a dozen research projects with a total budget amount of approx. 5 mill. EURO on perception and marketing issues and a renowned contributor and invited speaker at international research conferences.
Professor Carbon is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Art & Perception, Section Editor of Perception and i-Perception, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Journal of Perceptual Imaging and Advances in Cognitive Psychology and a member of the Editorial Boards of Open Psychology, Musicae Scientiae and Leadership, Education and Personality. Since 2023, Professor Carbon is an ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
