Joanna Steinglass, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Eating Disorders Center for Research and Treatment at Columbia University. Dr. Steinglass graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Medical School. She completed her psychiatry training at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute and joined the Eating Disorders team in 2003. Dr. Steinglass also serves as Training Director of the Eating Disorders T32 Research Fellowship.

Dr. Steinglass' research examines the neural and behavioral mechanisms of illness in anorexia nervosa paired with the development of mechanism-based treatments. She conducts interdisciplinary research that uses tools from cognitive and computational neuroscience to apply the latest understanding of the healthy brain to research on anorexia nervosa. She applies these insights to the development of behavioral, neuromodulatory, and pharmacological interventions for patients with eating disorders.

Dr Peter Koval is an Associate Professor in Psychology and co-director of the Functions of Emotion in Everyday Life (FEEL) Lab. His research interests lie at the intersection of social, personality, and clinical psychology with a focus on the dynamics of emotional processes in daily life, including how people experience and regulate their emotions in response to everyday events, and how these processes relate to well-being and psychological functioning.

Dr Koval's research has been published in leading generalist (e.g., PNAS, Psychological Science) and specialist journals (e.g., Emotion, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology). He leads the development of SEMA3 (https://sema3.com/), a research platform for collecting intensive longitudinal data with smartphones, used by over 1,000 researchers at leading institutions around the world. He is also a co-developer of EMOTE (https://emotedatabase.com/), a large-scale, searchable repository of intensive longitudinal data on emotion experience in daily life.

Hiba Jebeile is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Accredited Practicing Dietitian at The University of Sydney. Her PhD research explored the use of intermittent energy restriction as a novel dietary intervention for the treatment of adolescent obesity and the impact of dietary focused obesity treatment on psychological health. She has led high quality reviews on the impact of obesity treatments for adolescents and adults on eating disorders risk and psychosocial health.

Her current research explores the intersection between obesity treatments and eating disorder risk, and the use of screening protocols for the early identification of eating disorders during obesity treatment. Hiba is the Co-lead and Program Manager of the EDIT Collaboration, a world-first international collaboration of researchers, clinicians and consumers exploring individual variability in eating disorder risk during behavioural interventions for obesity. As a testament to the quality of her research, Hiba has received several awards including the Dietitians Australia New Researcher Award and the 2024 ANZOS Young Investigator Award.

Professor Adam Guastella is a clinical psychologist, the Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health, and head of the Clinic for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre. His research encompasses all stages of development, from young infants through to late adulthood, across a range of neurodiverse and mental health conditions, such as autism, anxiety, psychosis, and substance dependence.

Professor Guastella has an established track record in human translational neuroscience, using neuroscience to inform and develop novel treatments for young patients with mental health problems. His team was the first in the world to show that a medication could be used as a treatment for social challenges in young children with autism, and his program of research now incorporates multi-site trials across Europe, Asia and Australia.