Advisory Board

Co-Directors

Debra Titone

Co-Director, Co-Founder

McGill University

Debra Titone is a Full Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Language & Multilingualism, and Associate Vice Principal (Research) at McGill. She is also an Associate Member of the School of Communication Sciences & Disorders at McGill. Titone directs the Language & Multilingualism Lab, where she trains undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral trainees. She serves as Team Leader for the Montreal Bilingualism Initiative, an Axis leader of the Centre for Research on Language, Brain, and Music, and Editor of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. Titone has been continuously funded by NSERC since 2003 and has also been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) over the years. She was awarded the Richard C. Tees Distinguished Leadership Award from the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) in 2019, and mentorship awards from Women in Cognitive Science, and the CPA Section for Women and Psychology (SWAP). Titone co-founded Women in Cognitive Science Canada + in 2016 and serves as an advisory board member of the parent organization, Women in Cognitive Science.

Erin Maloney

Co-Director

University of Ottawa

Dr. Erin Maloney is an Associate Professor of Psychology and a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Academic Achievement and Well-Being at the University of Ottawa. She earned a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Waterloo (2011). Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, Dr. Maloney worked as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago (2011-2015), as a Senior Researcher at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (2016-2017) and as a Defense Scientist for the Canadian Department of National Defense (2017).

Dr. Maloney is a world-leader in the study of math anxiety. She has been awarded early career awards from the Province of Ontario (2021), the Psychonomic Society (2022), and the University of Ottawa (2021/2023). Passionate about knowledge mobilization, she is a sought-after speaker on the topics of academic achievement and emotional well-being, and is the author of a popular-press children’s book on math anxiety. Being legally blind herself, Dr. Maloney advocates for the importance of accessibility, equity, and diversity in science and education.