Professor Gordon J. G. Asmundson is a registered psychologist, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Anxiety and Illness Behaviour Laboratory at the University of Regina. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan and an awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest accolade available to scientists and scholars.

Professor Asmundson is co-director of the Psychology of Pandemics Network, a knowledge hub investigating psychological factors in pandemics and COVID-19 related stress.

Professor Asmundson is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders and of Clinical Psychology Review. In addition, he serves on numerous editorial boards for high-ranking scientific journals, is co-author and editor of multiple books, and has published over three hundred peer-reviewed articles.

In 2006 Professor Asmundson completed training as a Beck Scholar at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research. He has multiple academic awards, including the Donald O. Hebb Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Psychology, and was recently invested in the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.