Maxim Likhanov

Candidate in Philology, active scientist in the field of educational psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He has experience of participating in large interdisciplinary and cross-cultural projects, including those supported by mega-grants, Project 5-100, Priority 2030, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Foundation for Basic Research.

Maxim is the executive editor of Legal Issues Journal.

Co-founder of The Accessible Genetics Consortium (TAGC) and Plus Consortium.

Member of international scientific societies: International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) and European Association for Personality Psychology.

Reviewer of journals: British Journal for Educational Psychology, Heliyon, Psychological Research, Scientific Reports, Globalization, Society and Education, Personality and Individual Differences.

Author of publications in international journals (Google Scholar: h-index — 8, citation statistics — 234; Scopus: h-index — 5).

Coordinator of scientific and educational projects in the field of applied cognitive psychology and neuroscience (for example, a large research project "Study of individual differences in education and success": https://www.researchgate.net/project/Individual-Differences-in-Education-and-Achievement-study-IDEAs, conducted by the scientific center of cognitive research NTU "Sirius" for 4 years).

Maxim has experience in developing and adapting psychodiagnostic tools, among them:
- Adaptation and development of an online spatial abilities battery for school- and college-aged students (Budakova et al., 2021; Lihanov et al., 2021);
- Personality and well-being assessment tests adapted from an international project (Big Five personality traits and emotional and behavioral problems (Papageorgiou et al., 2020; Likhanov et al., 2020);
- development of a new visual-spatial memory assessment test (Tsigeman et al., 2022).