Yang Qu is an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He received a PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University. Qu takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and neuroscience to examine how sociocultural contexts shape adolescent development. He studies adolescents from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds using a variety of methodological approaches, including longitudinal and experimental designs along with survey, observational, and biological (e.g., neuroimaging with fMRI) assessments. Qu was born in Beijing, went to college in Shanghai, and moved to the USA for graduate school.

Shiyu Zhang is a PhD student at the Michigan Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She recently graduated with an MA in social science (sociology focus) at the University of Chicago. She also has an MA in Migration, Ethnic Relations, and Multiculturalism from Utrecht University, an MSc in Data Science from Tilburg University, and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her methodological research interest is in combining survey data and novel forms of data in answering social science questions; her substantive research interest is in family relations between parents and adolescents. She has published in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology and the Journal of Research in Personality.

Sylvia Chanda Kalindi is an Instructor in the Faculty of Education at the Mount Saint Vincent University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Kalindi was born and raised in Zambia, where she attended college She obtained her master’s degree from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, and her PhD degree in Developmental Psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has worked in Zambia, Hong Kong, and Canada. Her research interests include language and literacy development, and parental support and literacy development, as well as the use of computer intervention strategies to enhance reading development across languages. Sylvia has published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly and Frontiers in Psychology and contributed to volumes such as The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences and The International Handbook of Early Childhood.

Beiming Yang is a PhD candidate in the Human Development and Social Policy program in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He received BA and MSc degrees in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include cultural differences in adolescents’ motivation, emotion, and decision making, as well as the role of parents in these processes. Yang was born in China and moved to the USA for the last year of high school when he was 16 years old.

Qian Wang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wang was born in Chongqing, China and went to Peking University for her undergraduate studies. She then received her PhD degree in Developmental Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her major research interests include parenting, social and personality development, and cultural influences on socialization and human development. She has published in journals such as Child Development and the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, and contributed to volumes such as The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology and The Handbook of Parenting. Wang identifies herself as ethnically and nationally Chinese, while intellectually “a global citizen.”