Niruban Balachandran, M.P.A.

Project Co-Leader

Niruban Balachandran is a USC Rossier School of Education Global Executive Doctor of Education candidate. Previously, he served in the World Bank, the East-West Center, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and other leading global organizations. His career has spanned more than 20 years in psychological science, education, and international development.

Mr. Balachandran was a winner of the World Bank's Innovation Challenge Prize, the Bradley M. Bloom Impact Award, and the International Society for Human Ethology's Linda Mealey Award. He is widely published in scholarly journals and print media, and is a frequently-invited speaker at international conferences. He is a Master of Public Administration (MPA) graduate of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and member of the Harvard Behavioral Insights Group, as well as a Bachelor of psychology graduate from Rutgers. In November 2019, he was honored by the New America Foundation as a Next Generation Leader.

Daniel J. Glass, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.

Project Co-Leader

Daniel Glass is a board-certified clinical psychologist and evolutionary behavioral science researcher. Dr. Glass has published seventeen peer-reviewed scholarly articles in the fields of psychology, medicine, and evolutionary studies on subjects ranging from human emotions to peer bullying/victimization to Alzheimer’s disease. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Suffolk University and is Board Certified in Behavioral & Cognitive Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Glass is currently a psychotherapist working with children, adolescents, and young adults at a private practice in Connecticut.

Dr. Glass has taught a number of college psychology courses, including evolution and behavior courses and has published papers in the field of evolution pedagogy. He is the former co-editor of the EvoS Journal, the official journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, and past president of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society (AEPS), a nonprofit dedicated to bridging the gap between evolutionary behavioral science research and applied domains of human endeavor.

Olivia Jewell, Ph.D.

Senior Project Manager

Olivia is a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham. She has taught classes across fields in psychology including cognitive, developmental, social, and research methods. Dr. Jewell's research focuses on the evolutionary basis for music and its function as a source of powerful and quick group bonding. She earned her Ph.D. from Goldsmiths University London and has presented her research at conferences such as the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and the Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Conference.

Melanie MacEacheron, Ph.D., LL.B.

Operations Management Associate

Melanie MacEacheron is an Assistant Teaching Professor with Arizona State University teaching primarily statistics and research methods to psychology students. She has previously taught a broad range of psychology courses. She is a Review Editor for Frontiers (Evolutionary Psychology). She formerly practiced law, primarily within the role of Legal Researcher and Writer.

She is the (co-)author of over 20 publications. These are in the areas of social and evolutionary psychology, and forensic psychology. Her research currently focusses on women's psychology as mothers, and average, psychological sex differences in mateships. Her research methods include experimentation, quasi-experimentation, economic game-play, and surveying, as well as qualitative analysis, and in-person, on-line, and large-scale archival research. She has also conducted comparative legal analysis to add context to psychological publications.