EABA Committee

Committee Structure

The Committee will serve for two years, between the EABA conferences.

1.President: with overall responsibility for the development of EABA, calling meetings, organising working parties to deal with specific issues, organising a committee to hold bi-annual conferences, and organising EABA committee elections.
2.Treasurer: with responsibility for managing the EABA account, collection of membership fees and conference registration, and to liaise with other organisations and providers with regard to any financial matters.
3.Secretary: with responsibility for maintaining the membership list, organising and maintaining the EABA web site, informing EJoBA of members’ addresses, and minuting EABA committee meetings.
4.Basic Science Representative: with responsibility for maintaining and forwarding the basic science objectives of the organisation through links with other academic institutions.
5.Applied Science Representative: with responsibility for maintaining and forwarding the applied science objectives of the organisation and liaising with accreditation boards, etc.

2008 Committee

President: Erik Arntzen ( Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla )

I received my Ph.D. from University of Oslo, Norway, and I am currently a fulltime Professor in Behavior Analysis at Akershus University College (AUC), where I direct the masters program in behavior analysis. My research interests span both basic and applied behavior analysis, with an emphasis on research in relational stimulus control, verbal behavior, and conceptual issues. I have served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Psychological Record, International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, and The Behavior Analyst Today. I have been a member of the board of the Norwegian Association for Behavior Analysis from 1987-1993 and at present hold the position of international representative. The Norwegian Association has an annual conference with approximately 800 attendees, and is the biggest behavior analysis organization outside of ABA International. I have attended most of the EABA meetings and was one of the founding members of the EABA. I have been an editor of the European Journal of Behavior Analysis (EJOBA) from the beginning in 2000 and I believe that EJOBA is vital for the promotion of the high quality research and applied work that is happening across Europe. My vision would be for a democratic European organization that can act as an umbrella organization that would help unite and support the separate country organizations. I believe EABA can develop behavior analysis across Europe by fostering collaboration with other behavior analysis organizations, developing electronic resources, hosting vibrant European meetings, and establishing an explicit relationship with the European Journal of Behavior Analysis as the official journal of EABA.
Treasurer: Giovambattista (Nanni) Presti ( Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla )

Adjunct Professor of Psychology at IULM University, Milan. Teaches Applied Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior in clinical postgraduate programs in Milan, Turin, Pescara, Parma (Italy). Director of the Behavioral Medicine Programmes in two medical clinics in Catania and Milan, which address chronic illnesses (obesity, smoking, etc.), in addition to the traditional areas of behavioral intervention with adults or developmentally delayed children. Founding member and vice-president of IESCUM, Italian chapter of ABAI, with responsibility for managing the budget and fund raising initiatives. Has supported the birth of EABA since the first meeting in Parma and the first international ABAI meeting in Venice. The relevance of EABA comes from the critical mass that it is possible to create within Europe to make behavior analysis visible. I wish to work so that this critical mass could, for example, have access to EU funding or support actions relevant to professionals in front of the EU institutions, address big socially relevant EU problems, make education of future behavior analysts more homogeneous across Europe, cross-fertilize experience within European universities, labs and research groups. The relationships with other European Associations should also be pursued, given the way that our science has developed in addressing "cognitive" processes relevant to basic and applied knowledge.
 

Secretary: Javier Virues-Ortega ( Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla )

I have some experience in the sort of managerial and administrative duties that the secretary post may involve. I have been vice-president of ABA Spain - the ABA Spanish affiliated chapter - since its foundation in 2004 and have been the director of the BACB-approved course and practicum program offered by this institution since 2006. This program is the only one of this kind offered in Spain and gathers most researchers and practitioners with a strong applied behavior analytic background in the country. I would be most willing to devote time and effort to assist the next executive board to do whatever tasks I am assigned in order to encourage the growth of the European Association for Behavior Analysis.

Basic Science Representative: Ricardo Pellón ( Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla )

I have been a member of EABA since its foundation and as such I have participated in all European congresses of behavior analysis since the original series of meetings on the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour held in Liege in the eighties. During the eighties I also attended several Experimental Analysis of Behaviour Group meetings in the United Kingdom, the root of a behavioural analysis organization in Europe. I have been a predoctoral student in Derek Blackman's lab in Cardiff, Wales (United Kingdom), a postdoctoral research fellow in Jon Katz's lab in Baltimore, Maryland (USA), and a sabbatical visitor in Peter Killeen's lab in Tempe, Arizona (USA). Currently I am Full Professor of Experimental Psychology in Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid (Spain) where I run an operant lab employing rats and pigeons. My research program has been mainly devoted to investigating the controlling variables and behavioural mechanisms involved in adjunctive behavior, an animal model of excessive behaviour. Recently, I have also started investigating the phenomenon of activity-based anorexia in animals. I see EABA as the organization that in Europe has to represent behavior analysis broadly, and my intention is to contribute in keeping basic science as the base on which to construct behavioural analysis interventions.

Applied Science Representative: Neil Martin ( Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla )

I have been committed to working as a behaviour analyst, as a clinician, academic, supervisor and researcher, since 1990. I have been a full member of the Association for Behavior Analysis for 12 years and a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) for six years. I am committed to ensuring that behaviour analytic certification and training is made available to as wide a group as possible. I was one of the 'ABA Lecturer's Co-operative' that developed the first BACB-approved course sequence in the UK, I teach on a number of BACB-approved university course sequences and I independently supervise a number of potential certificants working in a variety of services. I was an international participant in a BACB panel discussion that generated a task list of competencies related to working in the field of autism. I believe that the wider international recognition of behaviour analysis is crucial to its continued growth and the growing number of individuals, services and academic courses in Europe will need to be supported by EABA who will also play a vital role through liaison with other national and international organisations and associations.