Diego García-Borreguero (MD, PhD) is International Medical Director of the Sleep Research Institute, with clinics in Madrid (Spain), Santiago (Chile) and Panamá. Before 2005, he was Director of the Sleep Disorders Center in the Department of Neurology of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. Dr García-Borreguero’s main area of research is restless legs syndrome, in which he is one of the world’s leading experts, with the main focus of his research being dopaminergic augmentation, pathophysiology and treatment outcomes. He is the author of two scientific books and more than 150 peer-reviewed articles published in leading international journals, such as Lancet Neurology, New England Journal of Medicine and The BMJ. Dr García-Borreguero is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Academy of Neurology and a member of the European Sleep Research Society, in which he served as Secretary of the Board between 2004 and 2008 and is now leading the Clinical Guidelines Subcommittee. Dr García-Borreguero has also been President of the Spanish Sleep Society (2010–2014) and President of its Scientific Committee (2014–2021).

Philippa Garety is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London and an honorary consultant clinical psychologist at the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Prof Garety’s research is focussed on the investigation of cognitive and emotional processes in psychosis, particularly delusions and hallucinations, together with developing new digital psychological therapeutics. With colleagues, she currently working on SlowMo, a novel digital intervention for paranoia, and co-leading a new research programme and large trial of AVATAR therapy for distressing voices.

Thomas Gargot is a child and adolescent psychiatrist working as a clinician in emergency and liaison psychiatry in Tours, France. He is interested in evidence-based psychotherapies (motivational interviewing, cognitive and behavioral therapies), the cognitive principles underlying them and the use of new technologies to better understand and disseminate them. He defended a European Thesis in Computer Sciences in April 2021 about the use of new technologies to characterize and treat writing disorders with electronic tablets that led to the creation of start-up dynamico.ch. From November 2020, he is Chief Resident (Chef de clinique Assistant) in Excellence Center of Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders and CAP department in regional university hospital of Tours, France, Prof Bonnet Brilhault and associated researcher in iBrain (Imagery and Brain) laboratory, Prof Belzung. He is the medical coordinator of a virtual reality project to treat sensory difficulties and a compressive chair project to perform deep pressure in Autism that received the James Dyson design Award 2021 in France https://www.audrainalexia.com/. He is the secretary of the EPA section of psychotherapy from 2019 and the councillor for research de la section E-mental health from 2020. In Budapest, he will present particularly for the 4th edition a course about "Useful Open Science Tools to do research in Psychiatry". He was a former IT secretary and psychotherapy working group chair in the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees in which he initiated a free online guidebook about psychotherapies https://epg.pubpub.org/ , studies about psychotherapy training and impact of online CBT training with the EPA.

Fiona Gaughran is Professor in Physical Health and Clinical Therapeutics in Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and the Director of Research and Development at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, where she is the Lead Consultant for the National Psychosis Service. Professor Gaughran holds fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Physicians in London, Edinburgh and Dublin and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. As part of her clinical role, Professor Gaughran is responsible for implementing new, evidence-based approaches to help people who have psychotic illnesses that have been resistant to treatment. Her research interests are largely focused on the interface between physical health and serious mental illness and on the management of psychosis. She recently co-edited books on “Treatment Refractory Schizophrenia” and “The Maudsley Practice Guidelines for Physical Health in Psychiatry”. Professor Gaughran is named in the 2020 Clarivate Web of Science “Highly Cited Researcher” list.

Graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2004. Specialized in Psychiatry in 2007. Gained her PhD in Neurobiology and Clinic of Affective Disorders in 2010, after working on her thesis at the Columbia University in New York, USA. From 2011 to 2016 she held a post-doc position at the University of Pisa. Since 2017 she works as Consultant Psychiatrist at the Department of Mental Health and Addiction of the ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco. She is the author of several scientific papers in international peer reviewed journals. Her research activity is mainly related to anxiety disorders, post traumatic disorder, complicated grief and autism spectrum disorder.