Prof. Martien Kas is a Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES) at the University of Groningen. His group research focuses on determinants of behavior, especially of behavioral strategies and biological processes that are essential across species and that are affected in various neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g. social interaction and sensory information processing). By means of cross-species genetic analyses of neurobehavioral traits (of mice and men) and digital phenotyping, they aim to identify genotype–phenotype relationships relevant to the development and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. These studies will lead to the understanding of conserved gene function in regulating essential behavioral strategies and will ultimately improve therapeutic and preventive strategies in contribution to healthy aging. In addition, he is Executive Committee Board member and President-elect of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), Editorial Board member of Mammalian Genome, and project coordinator of the PRISM project, a large EU Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI) project that aims to unpick the biological reasons underlying social dysfunction, which is a common early symptom of schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, and major depressive disorder.

Founder of the Cantonal Institute of Addiction Disease Zenica 2005.In the Institute, he worked as a MD specialist in the outpatient clinic, head of the hospital ward, head of the department of outpatient and inpatient treatment of addicts.In the period 2013-2017, he was the CEO of the Institute.Currently in the position of CMO of the Institute and President of the Expert Council of the institution.Consultative psychiatrist and addictologist at the Cantonal Hospitals Zenica and Travnik, the Prison of Maximum Security in Zenica and the therapeutic community in Aleksandrovac.

2001-2014 Competence Centre Transcultural Psychiatry, Psychiatric Center Ballerup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark. Advisory Positions 1987-2009 Member Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health, WHO. 1993-2009 Expert advisor, European Council Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and Punishment. Activities related to European Psychiatric Association 1992-2019 Member Board of European Psychiatric Association. 2003-2013 Secretary General, European Psychiatric Association. Activities related to World Psychiatric Association 1996-2002 Member Executive Committee 2002-2008 Zonal Representative Northern Europe, WPA Activities related to World Association Social Psychiatry 2013-2019 Treasurer World Association Social Psychiatry Activities related to Danish Psychiatric Association 2005-2012 Member Board Dan Psych Ass Activities related to Mental Health Europe 2006-2009 Member Board Mental Health Europe Author/co-author of more than 100 peer-review articles, 15 books, more than 90 book-chapters.

Senior Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist TRD, Neuromodulation

Dr. Keitner is the Director of the Family Therapy/Research Program at Rhode Island Hospital. He is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Brown University School of Medicine Providence, Rhode Island. He has published over 120 articles in peer reviewed journals. He is co-author of three books and 40 book chapters on mood disorders, family functioning and family therapy His clinical work is with severely ill inpatients. He treats patients on inpatient units and in the Partial Hospital. He is a clinical supervisor for inpatient and outpatient treatment and also supervises residents in psychopharmacology, psychotherapy and family therapy.

Prof. Szabolcs Kéri graduated in general medicine at the Szent-Györgyi Albert Medical University (Szeged, Hungary), where he worked at the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Physiology until 2006, in positions ranging from resident to associate professor. He obtained clinical specializations in psychiatry (2000), medical rehabilitation (2008), and cognitive-behavioral therapy (2012). Scientific degrees and titles: PhD (1999), habilitation (2006), Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) (2007), elected member of the Academia Europaea (2010). He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karolinska Institute (Stockholm; 2002-2003) and served as a visiting professor at the Center for Behavioral and Molecular Neuroscience, Rutgers University (Newark, USA; 2011-2013). He is currently a director at the National Institute of Mental Health, Neurology, and Neurosurgery (Budapest) and a professor of cognitive science at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.