Professor Baljinder Kaur Sahdra is a researcher at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, Australia. She also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science and on the Board of Directors of Global Compassion Coalition, USA, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Better Health, USA.
She has made substantial scientific contributions in the areas of well-being, mindfulness, compassion, nonattachment, intensive meditation, discrimination and social identity, compulsive internet use, educational psychology, and personalizing psychology. Her research articles are highly cited, with 9,060+ Google Scholar citations and 950+ media mentions. She has received several prestigious awards and competitive research grants totaling $7+ million.
According to Research.com, she is one of the "Best Scientists in Psychology” in the world. Her recent research advances idionomic computational methods, which integrate individual-level and group-level insights to advance data-driven personalized psychological care for improving the human condition.