Roxane de la Sablonnière is a full professor in the Department of Psychology at Université de Montréal. She is the director of the Social Change and Identity Laboratory since 2005. Her research focuses on the challenges people face when they are exposed to profound social change, such as the colonization that affected Canada's Aboriginal peoples or immigration. She also works with other groups undergoing profound social change, notably in Mongolia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and South Africa. The COVID-19 project is part of her quest to understand social change and identify the interventions that are most beneficial to the collective well-being.

Éric Lacourse is a full professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Montreal. He is currently responsible for the bi-disciplinary baccalaureate in psychology and sociology and formerly director of the microprogram in social statistics. He has recently been interested in the integration of machine learning approaches to complex data. He adopts a multidisciplinary perspective that integrates theoretical concepts from developmental and educational psychology, psychiatry, criminology and sociology. In this project, he will offer methodological expertise in data analysis, as well as theoretical expertise on the social impacts of change on identity and personality.

Jean-Marc Lina holds an engineering degree from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France (1982) in Physics Engineering (Nuclear) and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Université de Montréal, Canada (1991). Since 1992, he has been a regular member of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques de Montréal where he founded and has directed since 2002 the PhysNum laboratory, mainly dedicated to wavelet analysis and the mathematics of neuroimaging. Since 2014, he has been a regular researcher at the Centre d'Études Avancées en Médecine du Sommeil of the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal. Since 2002, he has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the École de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal, within the Université du Québec network. His areas of research focus on Bayesian approaches in electromagnetic neuroimaging applied to epilepsy and the study of cognitive mechanisms during sleep. On the other hand, his work focuses on the multifractal analysis of cerebral electrophysiological signals and the dynamics of complex systems in psycho-sociology. In the present project, his expertise in complexity analysis methods will provide a rigorous understanding of the dynamics of change as applied to COVID-19.

Dietlind Stolle is a James McGill Professor of Political Science at McGill University and Director of the Inter-University Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (IDC). She conducts research on voluntary associations, trust, social capital, collective action, ethnic diversity and new forms of political participation. Her book Political Consumerism-Global Responsibility in Action (2013), published by Cambridge University Press (with Michele Micheletti), won the Canadian Political Science Association's Comparative Politics Award. She was the PI for the second wave of the Canadian Youth Study and co-PI for the Canadian Election Survey (CES). Other ongoing projects include the role of pregnancy in political mobilization, political radicalization and polarization, the social and political integration of Syrian refugees in Canadian society, and attitudes towards democratic deconsolidation. In this project, Stolle contributes to the design of the studies and also brings her expertise to the team as a specialist in survey research in advanced industrialized democracies.

Mathieu Pelletier-Dumas is a post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal. He completed a master's degree in sexology at the Université du Québec à Montréal before undertaking a doctorate at the Université de Montréal in social psychology. The quality of his doctoral thesis was recognized by the Université de Montréal as well as by the Canadian Psychological Association. His research interests focus on the important changes that people face (social and personal changes), on identity as well as on negative behaviours (discrimination, prejudice, disruptive behaviours in video games).

Anna Dorfman is a post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal. She has completed her Master’s degree and PhD in Social Psychology at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. She is studying the emotions, cognitions and behaviours involved in difficult social situations and interpersonal conflicts. She is also an expert in behavioral decision making, interested in cooperation, trust, and the role of social norms in people’s behavior. She uses complex statistical models and variety of research methods such as economic games, diary studies, and prospective longitudinal designs.