Born in 1963 in Seville and since 2003 Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Specialist in Clinical Psychologist, has been the Director of the Eating Disorders (ED) Unit at the Dept. of Psychiatry (University Hospital Bellvitge-HUB/IDIBELL), Head of Group CIBERobn (Excellent Spanish Research Network for Obesity and Nutrition) since 2007, Associated Professor in Psychology, University of Barcelona, since 2000 and Full Professor since 2010 (School of Medicine), at the same University. He obtained his PhD in Psychology in 1996 at the University of Hamburg (Germany), his BP in 1990 (Clinical Psychology) at the University of Barcelona. His previous appointments were as a Clinical Psychologist at the Psychiatric University Hospital of Hamburg (1994-1995), long-term predoctoral Research Fellowship in Hannover, Germany (1992-1993) and Consultant Psychologist at the Department of Psychiatry, HUB in Barcelona (1996-03). He was Invited Professor at the University of North Carolina (2005) and at the McGill University in Montreal (2009/15). He gave more than 300 invited lectures in International or National professional Psychology, Psychiatry, Nutrition/Endocrinology Conferences and is actively involved as recognized Supervisor in Continuous Teaching in ED, and relevant member of several international professionals Associations (AED, ED Research Society). Until 2007 he was a board member of the American Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), past President of the Latin American Hispanic Chapter of the AED) and co-chair of Continuous Teaching in the AED, Fellow of the AED, Editor in Chief of European Eating Disorders Review (since 2011) and awarded with the Meehan Hartley Award for Public Service and/or Advocacy-2004, leadership Research Award-2015, and Hilde Bruch Lecture Award-2017 (University of Tübingen, Germany). He received several additional awards on development and innovation (Best European Video game for health-2011; Best Spanish Research Ideas-Diario Medico 2011). He has been IP in several International/ EU Grants (12) and in National Grants (20). He published more than 330 English peer-reviewed manuscripts in international journals. He is currently member of the EDRS and AED, board member for the HLCA chapter, Co-Chair of the ED Section of the WPA (2018-2023) and president of the Eating Disorders Research Society (EDRS). He the current Chair of the Research Committee of the University Hospital of Bellvitge (2019-22) and Member of the Advisory Board of Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Adjunto ANEP). Local organizer of several international conferences in Barcelona in the field: ECED-2001, AED-2006, HLCA-2006, EDRS-2020. Links of relevance: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=4IiGuywAAAAJ&hl=en Pubmed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=fernandez-aranda ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2968-9898