Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Specialist in Clinical Psychology, is Distinguished Professor (School of Medicine, University of Barcelona). He 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, 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. He was Invited Professor at the University of North Carolina (2005) and at the McGill University in Montreal (2009/15). 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 is currently president of the Eating Disorders Research Society (EDRS) and Co-Chair of the ED Section of the World Psychiatric Association (2018-2023). He has been IP in several International/ EU Grants (13) and in National Grants (20). He published more than 376 English peer-reviewed manuscripts in international journals. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2968-9898