Timo J. Lajunen is a psychologist with a long international research career in traffic psychology, safety culture, personality, health psychology, and cross-cultural behavioural research. He received his PhD from the University of Helsinki in 1997 and has held academic positions in Finland, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Sweden, Norway, and Cyprus, including professorships at NTNU.
His work examines how individual differences, cultural factors, and organisational environments shape behaviour in high-risk and high-responsibility contexts, particularly in traffic safety, professional driving, organisational safety culture, and public health. He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals, served in several editorial and expert roles, supervised doctoral and master’s theses, and coordinated externally funded research projects.
Igor Radun is a university researcher with a PhD (2009) and docentship (2015) in traffic psychology. He completed two postdoctoral positions abroad: at Chalmers University of Technology from 2011 to 2013 and at the Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, from 2013 to 2015. He continues to be affiliated with the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University.
In 2019, he received a recognition medal (Ansiomitali) for his work in traffic safety from the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and he has been awarded the H. J. Eysenck Memorial Fund Award twice (in 2017 and 2019).
In addition to traffic psychology, he is interested in research and publishing ethics.